Asplenium hookerianum

Rhizome short, covered with dark brown, shiny scales with long fine tips. Fronds tufted, erect to spreading, 5–20 cm long, with scattered red-brown scales extending up stipe, rachises and veins. Stipe shorter or longer than lamina, slender, grooved, brown below, green above. Lamina oblong-triangular, 1–2-pinnate (if 1-pinnate, then basal pinnae usually divided), mid-green to dark green, membranous; rachises slender, green, grooved. Pinnae with slender stalks; pinnules obovate to triangular, c. 3–10 cm long, bluntly toothed or deeply lobed; veins obscure except for raised midvein. Sori short, oblong, oblique to midvein, not reaching margin; indusium oblong, membranous, opening towards centre of pinna.