Pteris multifida Poir.

In New Zealand, Pteris multifida has an erect to short-creeping, scaly rhizome; rhizome scales narrowly ovate, shiny brown, concolorous. Fronds ± dimorphic; sterile fronds to 250 mm long, fertile fronds 180–370 mm long. Stipes pale green to yellow-brown, 50–175 mm long. Rachises winged for most or all of its length. Sterile laminae up to 130 mm long and 60 mm wide, pinnatifid distally, pinnate-pinnatifid proximally, with the primary pinnae divided almost to the midrib into a single pair of secondary pinnae arising on both sides of the primary pinnae; secondary pinnae up to 35 mm long and 9 mm wide, margins irregularly serrate, apices acuminate. Fertile laminae broadly elliptic or broadly ovate, up to 220 mm long and 150 mm wide, pinnatifid distally, pinnate-pinnatifid proximally with the primary pinnae divided almost to the midrib into 1 or 2 pairs of secondary pinnae arising on both sides of the primary pinnae; secondary pinnae up to 80 mm long and 5 mm wide, margins entire or serrate distally, apices acuminate. Veins free. Sori continuous along margins of ultimate segments.

Recorded growing from cracks in a horizontal pine log in a carpark, and on moss-covered concrete block walls.

New record. Voucher AK 305834, WELT P023358, 2009.