Rhizome 2-3 mm wide, covered with reddish brown hairs. Fronds to 1 m long. Blade ovate to elliptic in outline, divided twice towards the tip, up to 4 times at the base, more or less erect. Stalk red-brown at base more chestnut brown above, and, like the main axis, warty and rough. Sori mostly away from the margin and unprotected or with a small reflexed marginal flap.

Can grow in cool areas.

WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic., Tas.

Red-brown frond stalks.

 

 H. amaurorachis (Kunze) Hook. from Tasmania and S Victoria has frond blades narrowly triangular, mostly less than 50 cm long with ultimate segment lobes rounded not pointed.

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.