Rhizome 4-8 mm wide covered with red-brown hairs at first. Fronds to 3 m long. Blade broadly ovate in outline, divided 3-4 times, mostly soft, pale green and sticky; main midrib slightly warty and yellowish; segment margins crinkled or lobed. Stalk brown at extreme base, yellowish brown above. Sori mostly away from the segment margins. Indusia absent or of extremely small reflexed marginal flap.

Can grow in cool areas.

E Qld, NSW, Vic., Polynesia and New Guinea to Japan and India.

Large fronds usually divided 4 times; blade covered in glandular hairs; frond stalks yellow-brown above the base.

Source: Spencer, R. (1995). Dennstaedtiaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.