English: Scrambling coral fern; Umbrella fern; Parasol fern; Carrier tangle; Matua-rarauhe; Matuku; Tapuwae kotuku; Waewae kaka; Waewae kotuku; Waewae matuku.
Region: Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania, Stewart Island; New Zealand, North Island, South Island, Stewart Island; possibly in Southeast Asia, Malesia, New Caledonia.
Habitat: often growing under waterfalls, in swamps, under cliffs, in tall open forest; prefers high humidity and good levels of sunshine and moisture.
BotanyFern: forming large colonies.
Leaves; forked several times; 2 to 4 m long; rachis on major branches has conspicuous and numerous bundles of bristles that are shiny, short, and amber to dark brown in colour; with numerous and scattered fringed scales. It has 2 to 6 cm long linear ultimate branches with close-set pinnules; undersurface of pinna-rachis has no hairs or scales; uncoiling tips and young rachises are covered in red-brown bristles and have some fringed scales; pinnules are 1 to 3 mm long, with a blunt, oblong-triangular shape; lower surface of the pinnules are flat or slightly concave and never rolled inwards on all edges to make a pocket; underside of a fertile frond has 2 to 4 of sori, rarely 1 or 5.
Sporangia: shiny, bright yellow to yellow-brown colour; around the central projection.