Rhizomes shortly creeping, stout, densely scaly; scales brown, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, membranous, margin ciliate, apex acuminate or acute. Fronds close together; sterile fronds 15-45 cm overall, stipe almost absent or short, 5-8 cm; lamina elliptic, 10-30 × [1.5-]3-4.5 cm, leathery, brown when dry, with sparse, small, brown, stellate scales, base cuneate, decurrent nearly to base of stipe, margin entire, thickened and slightly reflexed, apex acute; midrib broad, flat abaxially, secondary veins simple or once forked; fertile fronds: stipe 7-10 cm, lamina somewhat narrower.
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