Rhizome short; scales dark brown, to 10 mm long (often shorter), 1 mm wide, acuminate, edges with short stiff hairs; phyllopodia 1-2 cm long. Sterile frond: stipe 0-3 cm; lamina thinly coriaceous, to 40 by 6-7 cm, widest 1/3 from apex, narrowed gradually to long-decurrent base, apex broadly but distinctly pointed; thinner edge narrow, not decoloured; veins usually distinct; costa rounded and prominent beneath; scales on lower surface light brown, irregularly stellate with slender arms to 1-1½ mm long, lacking conspicuous spherical cells near point of attachment. Fertile frond: stipe 7-15 cm; lamina 11-30 cm long, 1.3-3.7 cm wide, shape as sterile.
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