Rhizome short; scales rather light brown, to 7 by 2.5 mm, acuminate but not hair-pointed, with few marginal hairs; phyllopodia 1 cm long. Sterile frond: stipe 2-8 cm, scaly when young as rhizome; lamina thinly coriaceous, 11-17 by 2.7-3.3 cm, widest at or below middle, apex evenly narrowed to a very narrowly rounded tip, hardly acuminate, base rather abruptly narrowed and then decurrent as a wing 2 cm long on the stipe; thin pale edge distinct, less than 1/2 mm wide; veins slender, distinct on both surfaces, rather widely spaced, their apices thickened and not joining; costa hardly prominent on lower surface; no scales seen on lamina. Fertile frond: stipe 10-12 cm; lamina 8-11 by 1.3-1.5 cm, shape as sterile.
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