Primary rachis-branches 2-4 times equally or subequally forked; ultimate branches 15-25 cm long, 3-8 cm wide; costules 4.5-6 mm apart; lamina-segments c. 4 mm wide when flattened, thick and rigid when dry and usually with edges reflexed; lower surface not glaucous, the costules at first covered rather densely with coarse dull rusty flexuous hairs and also some rigid shining hairs; veins grooved on the lower surface when the lamina is very thick, on thinner leaves hardly grooved, pale but not raised on the upper surface; spores monolete.