Rhizome thick, short; scales c. 10 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, crisped, red-brown, entire, narrowed to a slender tip; phyllopodia c. 1 cm long. Sterile frond: stipe 7 cm long, the upper 2 cm narrowly winged; lamina 17-20 by 3.5-4 cm, rigid, rather thick, drying brown and wrinkled, widest above middle, narrowed gradually to wing at base and to broadly pointed or slightly rounded apex; thin pale edge very narrow; veins obscure; costa beneath broad, pale, little prominent; scales very small, stellate with 3-6 arms of several cells with small glandularcells laterally on arms. Fertile frond: stipe 11 cm; lamina 11 by 2.2 cm, rather abruptly narrowed at base and at rounded apex.
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