Lastreopsis walleri

Dryopteridaceae

Lastreopsis walleri Tindale

Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/87437

Rhizome short-creeping, 10–25 mm thick, densely scaly; scales 8–14 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, with numerous short spines on the upper surface and margins. Fronds crowded. Stipe 40–90 cm long, densely scaly and hairy, scabrous. Lamina 3-pinnate, pentagonal, 340–100 cm long, 30–90 cm wide, green to grey-green, dull, thin but stiff; lamina and rachis covered with short stiff white hairs. Ultimate segments oblong; margins ±entire, crenate or lobed; apex obtuse. Sori small; indusium dark brown, fringed with hairs.

Endemic to NE QLD between Windsor Tableland and Evelyn Tableland.

Terrestrial in mid-montane to upper-montane rainforest.

This is the largest Lastreopsis species in Australia.