Cystopteris tasmanica

Rhizome short, covered in thin, hair-tipped, shiny brown scales. Fronds delicate, clustered near tip of rhizome, 10–35 cm long. Stipe relatively long, slender, pale, grooved, scaly at base, scattered hair-like scales above. Lamina 1–2-pinnate with primary pinnae distant, lanceolate-oblong, light green to mid-green, membranous, glabrous; rachises slender and grooved. Pinnae shortly stalked near base of lamina, ovate to triangular, deeply lobed or toothed; primary pinnae ovate to oblong, up to 4 cm long; apices broadly acute. Sori near margins, numerous, round, on vein which continues beyond it; indusium attached at inflated base, delicate, pale, ovate and often with pointed or toothed apex, shed early.