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Rhizome 1-1.5 cm diam., fleshy, bearing 2 rows of fronds articulated to swollen, conical phyllopodia, c. 1 cm tall, 1-2 cm apart; rhizome and stipe bases bearing scattered scales. Scales ±round, 0.5-3 mm diam., pale with a dark centre consisting of cells with thick lateral walls. Fronds to 40 cm long; sterile fronds often shorter. Stipe 2-10 cm long. Lamina simple, c. 8-30 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide; base very narrow; margins thickened, sinuous (1 convexity to each sorus); apex rounded; texture thin, firm with no veins visible on surface; prominent lateral veins lacking; areoles irregular. Sori large, in 1 row on each side of midrib, c. half-way or less from edge, in sharply defined shallow usually elliptic cavities (projecting on upper surface), 3-5 mm diam.; paraphyses absent. Spores 32.5-62.5 µm long, 25-47.5 µm wide.
