Rhizome short; scales pale brown, rather thin, to 10 by 2 1/2 mm, tapering to apex, subentire; phyllopodia 1 cm long. Sterile frond: stipe 5-8 cm, pale, bearing scales as rhizome but smaller; lamina 20-30 by 3.5-5 cm, thick, rigid, drying green, widest at or a little above middle, base gradually or rather abruptly narrowed and slightly decurrent, distally narrowed rather abruptly to rounded apex; edge thick and pale; veins obscure; costa pale, slightly prominent beneath; scales on lower surface small, stellate. Fertile frond: stipe 15-20 cm; lamina 14-17 by 1.8-3.3 cm; spores 52-59 by 33-37 μm, with broad perispore having very few folds in it.
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