Rhizome short; scales c. 6 by 2.5 mm, not long-acuminate, dull medium brown; phyllopodia 1 cm long. Sterile frond: stipe 2 cm (type) to 10 cm long; lamina of type 15 by 2 l/2 cm, of other specimens to 27 by 4.5 cm, thinly coriaceous, base cuneate and slightly decurrent, apex shortly acuminate; pale edge narrow, deflexed; veins just distinct; costa somewhat prominent beneath; scales small, stellate, appressed. Fertile frond: stipe of type 5 cm, of other specimens to 22 cm; lamina of type 12 by 1.8 cm, of another Java specimen 28 by 2.2 cm, of a Celebes specimen 20 by 3½ cm.