Rhizome short; scales rather light brown, thin, c. 10 by 1.5 mm, tapered to a slender apex, entire; phyllopodia 1 cm long. Sterile frond: stipe 4-12 cm long, pale, about half of it with a very narrow wing, bearing some residual scales as rhizome; lamina thick and rigid when dry, 8-12 by 3½-6 cm, almost elliptical but base decurrent, apex broadly bluntly pointed; thin pale edge ½ mm wide, sometimes deflexed on drying; veins obscure; costa beneath slightly prominent in basal half; scales on surfaces at first abundant, very small, with a few marginal hairs of 2-3 cells. Fertile frond: stipe 20-25 cm; lamina 8-10 by 2-3 cm, shape as sterile.
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