Rhizome very short-creeping, branched, densely scaly, thickly covered with dark roots with spreading ginger hairs; scales 4–8 mm long, very slender; walls of inner cells thick and blackish; outer cell walls thinner and brown; apex hair-like with curved marginal teeth. Fronds crowded. Lamina linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblanceolate, 10–50 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, tapered to both ends, dark green, glossy, coriaceous, erect to semi-erect and ± falcate to pendulous; midvein obscure; lateral veins very oblique. Paraphyses branched; terminal cells clavate, c. 2 or 3 times as long as wide.
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