Rhizome short; scales dense, to 20 mm long, 2 mm wide at base, distally very narrow, hair-pointed, somewhat red-brown, older ones darker and dull, with some slender marginal hairs; phyllopodia 1-1½ cm long. Sterile frond: stipe to 1½ cm long; lamina rather thick, rigid when dry, to 30 by 5-6 cm, widest above middle, tapering gradually to decurrent base and rather abruptly to broadly pointed or slightly rounded apex; thin pale edge very narrow; veins not distinct; costa beneath broad, slightly prominent; scales on lower surface sparse, stellate, under 1 mm ø including rays, with some spherical cells near point of attachment. Fertile frond: fertile part of lamina to 18 by 2.5 cm, gradually narrowed to base which con-tinues as a sterile wing 10 cm long almost to phyllopodium, apex abruptly narrowed and rounded.
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