Leptopteris fraseri, known as the Crepe Fern is a plant occurring in eastern Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The habitat is wet places, mostly on the Great Dividing Range

Great Dividing Range

The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest in the world. The range stretches more than 3,500 km from Dauan Island off the northeastern tip of Queensland, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through...

. It is found in caves, near waterfalls, in dark shady places in the cooler rainforests.

A fern with a trunk to one metre high, with one or more crowns. The arching fronds may be one metre long, on a stipe

Stipe (botany)

In botany, a stipe is a stalk that supports some other structure. The precise meaning is different depending on which taxonomic group is being described....

 between 20 and 45 cm. The stem may be glaucous

Glaucous

Glaucous is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the Glaucous Gull , Glaucous-winged Gull , Glaucous Macaw , and Glaucous...

. Small reddish brown hairs may also be seen. Fronds are relatively thin, between 15 cm and 25 cm wide. Mature sporangia are found under the fronds in irregular patterns, brownish orange in colour.