Megalastrum lanuginosum (Kaulf.) Holtt.

lanuginosum: slightly wooly; alluding to the slightly hairy lamina of this fern.

Rhizome erect, sometimes forming a caudex up to 45 cm high; rhizome scales up to 27 × 2 mm, subentire, golden-brown, linear. Fronds tufted, arching, thinly herbaceous, up to 2 m long. Stipe up to 75 cm long, brown, with scales similar to the rhizome scales at the extreme base. Lamina broadly triangular in outline, deeply 2-pinnatifid above to 4-pinnatifid at the base, with basal pinnae largest and strongly basiscopically developed, up to 1.5 × 0.64 m. Pinnules oblong, acuminate, margins entire or shallowly lobed, slightly hairy on both surfaces, more so on the costae & costules and rhachis. Sori small, round, up to 2 mm in diameter; indusia kidney-shaped, brown, sparsely hairy to subglabrous.

From Southern Africa extending to tropical Africa; also Comoro and Mascarene Islands, Madagascar, bioko, São Tomé.

Megalastrum lanuginosum là một loài thực vật có mạch trong họ Dryopteridaceae. Loài này được (Willd. ex Kaulf.) Holttum miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1986.