Rhizome creeping, 4-5 mm ø, bearing fronds close together; scales dark brown, glossy, 2-3 mm long, not acuminate, somewhat crisped; phyllopodia less than 5 mm long. Sterile frond: stipe 5-7 cm long, pale, almost covered v/ith appressed broadly ovate subentire brown scales less than 1 mm long; lamina thinly coriaceous, 20-26 cm long, 8-9 mm wide, widest about middle, narrowed gradually to decurrent base and caudate apex; edge reflexed and inrolled when dry; veins distinct on lower surface; costa rounded and raised beneath; scales on upper surface of costa as stipe but with short marginal projections of one cell; on upper surface of lamina few persistent scales, same shape as on costa but thin, pale, with short marginal unicellular hairs; on lower surface many small spots of dark reddish resin, apparently on sites of former scales. Fertile frond: stipe 11 cm; lamina 18 cm by 7 mm, widest above middle, base gradually and narrowly decurrent, apex not caudate.
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