Lastreopsis wurunuran

Dryopteridaceae

Lastreopsis wurunuran (Domin) Tindale

Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/87444

Rhizome long-creeping, 5–8 mm thick, scaly towards the apex; scales 0.2–1 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, dark brown. Fronds crowded. Stipe 15–40 cm long; base scaly and densely covered with pale, spreading hairs to 4 mm long. Lamina 3-pinnate, pentagonal, 15–40 cm long, 5–30 cm wide, dull green, thin, glabrous or with scattered whitish glandular hairs; undersurface of rachises clothed with fine spreading whitish hairs. Ultimate segments oblong to lanceolate; margins entire to shallowly crenulate; apex subacute to obtuse. Sori small, medial on simple veinlets or nearly terminal on forked veinlets, exindusiate.

Endemic to NE QLD from Mt Finnegan to Kirrama Range.

Terrestrial in low-montane to upper-montane vine forest and open forest.