Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

Family: Marattiaceae (Marattia)

Synonym: Marattia fraxinea

Distribution: India

Life form: Fern or Fern ally

Comments: Rhizome massive, forming an upright caudex. Stipe up to 1 m long, fleshy, light green, base swollen and flanked by a pair of thick stipules. Lamina 1-3 × 0.5-1.5 m, bipinnate, ovate in outline. Pinnules glabrous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate in outline, margin sharply toothed, apex attenuate base unequally cuneate, venation prominent below. Synangia very distinctive, capsular with linear opening, situated singly towards the end of each vein, c. 2 × 1 mm.