Hypolepis elegans Carruth. APNI* 
Description: Rhizome long-creeping, 4–8 mm diam., densely covered with pale brown hairs at the tip.
Fronds erect, mostly 0.7–1.2 m long; stipe red-brown at the base, becoming yellow-brown above; stipe and rachises covered with colourless non-glandular hairs; lamina dark green, broad-triangular, thin-textured, 2-pinnate at apex and usually at least 4-pinnate at base; ultimate segments narrow, lobed.
Sori on the upper margin of each ultimate segment, protected by a conspicuous false indusium that is at least partly colourless and membranous.
Distribution and occurrence: in open places on forest margins. Not recently collected in mainland N.S.W. or Victoria, may now be confined to LHI.
NSW subdivisions: NC, LHI
Other Australian states: Vic.
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Presumed Extinct
This species is considered data-deficient by Saving our Species (SoS, DPIE) which means a conservation project cannot be developed for it. Visit their website and contact SoS if you have additional information.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: P.J. Brownsey (1998)
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