Hypolepis glandulifera

Dennstaedtiaceae

Hypolepis glandulifera Brownsey & Chinnock

Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/116860

Rhizome long creeping, hairy. Stipe and rachis mostly yellow-brown, bearing dense fine glandular and non-glandular hairs; stipe 40–120 cm long, 3–10 mm diam. Lamina broadly ovate or broader than long, 45–180 cm long, 40–150 cm wide, 4-pinnate at base, with dense fine colourless and brownish glandular and non-glandular 0.1–1 mm long hairs on the undersurfaces. Primary pinnae in 20–30 pairs; longest 24–65 cm long, 10–48 cm wide. Longest secondary pinnae 6–25 cm long, 2–11 cm wide. Longest tertiary pinnae 10–60 mm long, 4–20 mm wide; quaternary pinnae 1–10 mm long, often deeply divided. Veins ending in apices of ultimate pinnules. Sori lacking paraphyses, unprotected or with slightly reflexed green laminal flaps. Spores pale, echinate, 33–35 × 21–26 µm.

Occurs along the E coast from NE QLD to Vic. Also widespread in Asia and the Pacific Islands.