[7] Growing to 90 cm (35 in) tall and broad, Rumohra adiantiformis is a bushy, tufted evergreen plant with glossy dark green fronds.

Rumohra adiantiformis is native to South America, the Caribbean, southern Africa, the Western Indian Ocean islands, Papua New Guinea, and Australasia.

[2] Countries it is native to include such diverse places as Brazil and Colombia,[8] the Galápagos Islands,[9] the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean, Zimbabwe and South Africa[2] Australia, and New Zealand.

[3] As it is a tropical plant with only limited protection against frost, in temperate climates it is normally grown under glass as a houseplant.

[11][12] It is of economic importance in Brazil, where thousands of people generate their income by wild-harvesting and selling the fronds for use in flower arrangements.