Rhizome creeping, fronds in each rank 1-1.5 cm apart; scales light brown, firm, ovate-acuminate, 5 by 1.5 mm, edges with few hairs; phyllopodia 1-1.5 cm long. Sterile frond: stipe slender, 13-14 cm long, glabrescent; lamina thick, rigid, to 12 by 3 cm, almost evenly elliptical, base shortly decurrent, apex narrowly rounded; thin pale edge c. 1/4 mm wide; veins +-distinct, not prominent; costa beneath broad, pale, hardly prominent; scales on lower surface red-brown, to 1 mm long, narrow with long marginal hairs near base, smaller ones stellate. Fertile frond: stipe 14 cm; lamina 6 by 2 to 8 by 3.3 cm, widest below middle, base abruptly narrowed and then decurrent 1 cm, apex broadly rounded.
Epiphyte, low on trees in mossy forest at 3140-3300 m, growing with E. angulatum, a specimen of which was collected with the type.
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