Plants evergreen. Rhizome erect, densely covered with broadly lanceolate brown scales. Fronds ca. 60 cm; stipe amber, ca. 12 cm, ca. 5 mm in diam. at base, densely scaly; scales brown, ovate and lanceolate. Lamina bipinnate, broadly oblanceolate, ca. 60 × 12 cm, slightly contracted toward base, acuminate; rachis without proliferous bulbils, scaly on both surfaces, scales lanceolate and linear, margins ciliate. Pinnae ca. 38 pairs, alternate, slightly ascendant, linear-lanceolate, middle pairs 6-7 × ca. 1.5 cm, obliquely broadly cuneate or nearly rounded, shortly stalked, pinnate, acuminate. Pinnules 8-12 pairs, alternate, slightly ascendant, approximate, obliquely oblong, acroscopic bases indistinctly auriculate, obliquely cuneate, margins with small spinulose forward-pointing teeth, apices acute and spinulose; basal acroscopic pinnules largest, 1-1.5 cm × 4-6 mm; abaxially scaly; microscales filiform, strongly ciliate at base; frond texture leathery; venation pinnate on pinnules, indistinct. Sori in 1 row on each side of midrib; indusia present, entire or incised.
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A medium sized fern. It grows 60-90 cm high and 30-74 cm wide. The rhizome is tufted. It has broad, arching, vase shaped shuttlecocks. These are formed by the narrow, sword shaped, divided fronds. The fronds are leathery and dark green. They produce clear rows of brown spores underneath.
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