Rhizome short; scales 10-15 by 3-4 mm, rather thin, light brown, subentire, not acuminate; phyllopodia c. 1 cm long. Sterile frond: lamina rather thin, of specimens seen to 57 by 5.5 cm (to 80 cm long, fide Brass), widest above middle, very gradually narrowed to joint with phyllopodium, apex acuminate; thinner edge hardly decoloured; veins distinct and slightly prominent on both surfaces, their apices joining in a series of submarginal arcs as in Asplenium nidus; costa prominent beneath throughout; scales on surfaces scattered, mostly under 1/2 mm, with a few short marginal hairs and spherical cells near point of attachment. Fertile frond: stipe 15 cm; lamina 25 by 2 cm, base long-decurrent, apex shortly blunt-pointed.
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