Rhizome short, fronds very close; scales medium brown, rather thin and crisped, hair-pointed, to 15 by 1 mm, edges with a few spreading hairs; phyllopodia less than 1 cm. Sterile frond: stipe 3-8 cm long with a wing c. 1 mm wide throughout, edge of wing pale cartilaginous as edge of lamina; lamina coriaceous, to 26 cm long, largest fronds 3.5-5 cm wide, usually widest above middle, narrowed gradually to base and more abruptly to broadly pointed or almost rounded apex; thin pale edge c. 0.5 mm wide; costa beneath slightly prominent near base, distally flat; veins faintly visible; lower surface glabrescent, residual scales stellate, small. Fertile frond: stipe to 8 cm; lamina c. 10 by 1.5-2 cm.
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