Rhizome creeping, branches few, covered with brown or black scales with pale, minutely toothed margins. Sterile and fertile fronds different. Fronds to over 1 m long, erect, rough, pinkish at first. Sterile fronds oblong in outline. Segments shortly stalked, the lower ones hardly shorter than the others; margins finely toothed. Fertile fronds longer than sterile ones, rough.
Formerly known as Blechnum procerum (G. Forst.) Sw. which is now considered restricted to New Zealand; it differs in having two-toned and fewer-toothed scales on the axes and, in general, more rounded ends to the segments. A variable species possibly forming natural hybrids with B. minus.
Will tolerate cool conditions.
E Australia.
Extremely dark green leathery segments.
Source: (1995). Blechnaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 1, Ferns, conifers & their allies. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.