Rhizome long-creeping covered with pale brown hairs. Fronds to 1.5 m long, separate or in irregular clusters, divided many times. Blade ovate to triangular in outline, thin, soft, pale green, veins and midribs on lower surface sparsely hairy; veins simple, forked or feathered, free. Sori marginal, round, small and inconspicuous, on a vein end. Indusia cup-like with outer marginal lip and inner lip.

Can grow in cool areas.

E Australia

Wide groove on upper surface of stalk and axes; small sori similar to but larger than those of Dennstaedtia.

Source: Spencer, R. (1995). Dicksoniaceae. 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.