Cyclopeltis crenata (Fée) C.Chr.

Scales on caudex to more than 15 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, bearing (at least distally) many short teeth formed by outgrowths from marginal cells (in some Bomean specimens very short); stipe 15-40 cm long, scaly throughout when young; lamina to 60 cm or more long; pinnae commonly to 20 pairs, distal ones gradually smaller and falcate, lamina-apex pinna-like, a few pairs lower pinnae more widely spaced and slightly reduced; middle pinnae almost at right angles to the rachis, largest sterile ones 13 × 2 cm, almost contiguous, fertile ones often narrower and more widely spaced, base truncate to subcordate on acroscopic side, rounded to deeply cordate on basiscopic side, margins ± crisped when living, entire or ± crenate, apex short-acuminate; upper surface of rachis and costae glabrous or a few hairs present near bases of costae of lower pinnae; lower surface of rachis bearing many narrow scales and also short erect hairs, more slender hairs present on costae; sori dorsal on veinlets, or sometimes terminal on the basal acroscopic one of each group, usually in 3 irregular rows on each side of the costa; indusia small, not covering sorus at maturity, shrivelling later.