Rhizome short; scales dark, glossy, rigid, flat, ovate, 4-5 by 1-1½ mm; phyllopodia 2-4 cm long. Sterile frond: unwinged stipe 1-3 (to 8?) cm long, above which is a narrowly winged part 4-20 cm long below lamina; lamina thinly coriaceous, 25-50 by 2.5-5 cm, widest about middle, gradually narrowed to narrowly cuneate base, apex acuminate; thin edge not distinct; veins slightly prominent, their ends joining in submarginal arcs (at least near base of frond); costa prominent beneath; scales on lower surface not persistent, very small, stellate with arms of 2-3 cells. Fertile frond: stipe 10-30 cm long; lamina 20-30 cm long including a narrow sterile decurrent base, 2.2 cm wide.
Epiphytic at 850-2000 m (type, at 850 m, a low epiphyte; specimen from 2000 m an epiphyte in moss cushions).
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