Lastreopsis hispida

Rhizome creeping, moderately thick, covered in narrow, red-brown scales. Fronds close together, erect, 30–85 cm tall. Stipe about as long as lamina, densely covered in stiff, red-brown bristles up to 1 cm long with bases persisting as tubercles. Lamina 3–4-pinnate, triangular, dark green, firm in texture, glabrous except along veins; rachises with bristles similar to those of stipe. Pinnules oblong-lanceolate, sharply pointed, margins deeply incised into narrow, toothed segments. Indusium fawn, with glandular margin (which may be tucked under indusium).