Rhizome short; scales dark, glossy, rather broad (no complete ones seen); phyllopodia 1.5-2 cm long. Sterile frond: unwinged stipe less than 2 cm long; lamina (including basal wing) to 30 by 4.7 cm, thinly coriaceous, the main part (18 cm long) elliptic with a narrow triangular apiculus 5 mm long, at the base rather abruptly narrowed to the basal wing; thin edge not distinct; veins slightly prominent on both surfaces, sometimes anastomosing at their tips; costa strongly prominent beneath; scales on lower surface of lamina not seen, on lower surface of costa small, stellate, also a few larger appressed ovate dark glossy scales hardly 1 mm long. No complete fertile frond seen; one frond fertile in distal 8 cm, this fertile part contracted, 2.3 cm wide, basal part shaped as sterile but narrower.
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