Roots not proliferous. Base fronds rounded-reniform in lower part, 60 cm or more diam., appressed to substrate and densely clothed with fawn stellate hairs; upper part flabellate, irregularly divided into elongate dichotomous spreading lobes. Foliage fronds usually paired, pendulous, up to 5 times forked, 30–200 cm long; base broadly cuneate. Sporangia in a single patch c. 10–50 cm wide, bulging into the sinus of first fork of foliage frond on its lower surface. Spores 70–85 µm long, 42.5–57.5 µm wide.
Popular in cultivation; see Jones (1987), Elliot & Jones (1997), Lloyd (2012), Halling (2020).
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