Thelypteris confluens

Rhizome creeping, slender and branched, growing tips covered in broad scales. Fronds erect, 30–100 cm tall; stipe longer or shorter than lamina, dark brown at base, paler and flattened above, shallowly grooved, glabrous with few broad scales at base. Lamina oblong-lanceolate, almost 2-pinnate, dull-green, herbaceous; rachis and pinnae mid-rib deeply grooved, grooves not connecting; lower surface of rachis and veins with papery, pale brown, ovate-orbicular scales and small scattered hairs. Lower pinnae slightly shorter than middle pinnae (pinnae of fertile fronds narrower), sessile, oblong to linear-oblong, lobed almost to midrib; lobes oblong, margins slightly wavy and strongly recurved on fertile fronds; veins free. Sori small, round but often coalescing; indusium kidney-shaped, papery, with short glandular hairs; spores brown.