Leptopteris wilkesiana

Family: Osmundaceae

Recognition:

• can have a narrow trunk up to about 2 m tall, but usually much shorter.
• the fronds are translucent.
• the orange-brown sporangia are spread over the underside of the lamina of the frond, rather than being aggregated into sori.

Distribution: in forest more or less throughout Fiji.  Also occurs in Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Samoa.