Schizaea malaccana

Schizaeaceae

Schizaea malaccana Baker

Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/116292

Rhizome short-creeping, densely clothed with pale yellow-brown hairs. Fronds clustered, erect, undivided, subterete, 6–27 cm long, 0.7–0.9 mm wide, smooth but with scattered, short thick appressed hairs; upper surface flat to shallowly grooved; lower surface rounded with 2 narrow grooves; sterile fronds absent; sporogenous heads 5–10 mm long, 1.5–3 times longer than broad, narrowly triangular; segments 3–5 mm long with scattered appressed hairs; margins with coarse hair-like teeth. Sporangia not mixed with hairs. 

Known in Australia from Cape York and Fraser Island in SE QLD. Also in Malesia and Pacific Islands.

Terrestrial in sandy soil near seepage in coastal areas.

Considered difficult to propagate and establish.