Rhizome apex densely covered with pale brown hairs. Fronds: stipe 30–60 (–100) cm tall, with pale glandular and non-glandular hairs when young; lamina 30–135 (–180) cm long or more, almost as wide, bipinnate at apex, becoming 3- or 4-pinnate towards base; rachis and its branches viscid with soft, pale glandular and non-glandular hairs 0.2–1.5 mm long, especially above; hairs on undersurface of lamina stoutish, 0.2–1.5 mm long; primary pinnae ±opposite, 15–50 cm long. Sori marginal, associated with ultimate segments, protected when young by reflexed, ear-like marginal lobes of lamina; lobes 0.3–0.8 mm wide, mostly green at base, membranous at apex, tapering, often with a few marginal, glandular hairs
GipP. Also naturalised in WA, SA. Native to Norfolk Island, Kermadec Island, Samoa, Tahiti, Marquesas Islands, New Zealand. In Victoria, sparingly established at Sweetwater Creek Reserve, in Frankston, where growing among Melaleuca ericifolia.
