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Information Rhizome c. 3 mm. in diam., erect to suberect, with tufted fronds and with brown lanceolate-attenuate entire clathrate rhizome-scales up to 3.5 mm. long. Fronds arching, carnose, coriaceous, proliferating with a bud at the end of a naked extension of the rhachis. Stipe stramineous, up to 7 cm., sulcate when dry, glabrous except for occasional subulate clathrate pseudoserrate scales up to 1.5 mm. long. Lamina up to 16.5 x 2.5 cm., simply pinnate, pinnae petiolate, rhombic-dimidiate to cuneate tending to lunate; larger pinnae up to 1.3 x 0.7 cm., shallowly lobed into up to 9 entire obtuse lobes on the acroscopic margins, subglabrous with occasional minute brown stellate scales c. 0.5 mm. in diam. on the dorsal surface. Rhachis stramineous, with narrow green wings, set with sparse subulate brown scales and minute paler substellate scales. Sori 2 mm. long, oblong, up to 5 per pinna; indusium oblong, longly ciliate, semi-transparent.

Information Gregarious epiphyte, the frond tips rooting at the tip to form dense colonies; rhizome erect to suberect, ± 3 mm diameter, with tufted fronds and with dark brown lanceolate-attenuate entire clathrate rhizome scales 2–3.5 mm long. Fronds arching, fleshy to coriaceous, 1-pinnate, proliferating with a bud at the end of a naked extension of the rachis; stipe straw-colored, 1–9 cm, sulcate when dry, glabrous except for occasional subulate clathrate scales up to 1.5 mm long. Lamina simply pinnate, 5–30x1.5–4 cm, pinnae in 12–23 pairs, shortly petiolate, rhombic-dimidiate to obliquely cuneate tending to half-moon-shaped; pinnae 0.6–2x0.3–1 cm, shallowly lobed into 2–9 entire obtuse lobes on the acroscopic margins, subglabrous with occasional minute brown stellate scales ± 0.5 mm diameter on the dorsal surface. Rachis straw-colored, with narrow green wings, set with sparse subulate brown scales and minute paler substellate scales. Sori brown, (1–)2–8 per pinna, oblong, to 3 mm long; indusium oblong, fimbriate, semi-transparent. Fig. 2: 9–10, p. 14.

Information Rhizome and stipe-base unknown. Lamina 32 cm long, 16 cm wide, the lowest pair of pinnae only slightly reduced; largest pinnae narrowly lanceolate, 8 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, pinnatifid into oblong lobes about 5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, fairly densely hairy above, with few long hairs on costules beneath; veins with lowest pair anastomosing to form a rounded areole and excurrent nerve to the sinus. Indusium densely hairy with very long hairs ± 1 mm long exceeding width of indusium.

Information Plants epilithic or epiphytic. Rhizome erect to suberect, to 15 mm long, to 2 mm in diameter, set with roots, crowded persistent stipe bases and scales, scales chartaceus, castaneus to ferrugineous, clathrate, sessile, lanceolate, cordate-imbricate, margins basally with a few scattered filiform outgrowths terminating in an enlarged obovate gland-like cell, entire towards the apex, apex terminates in an oblong thin-walled cell, to 5 mm long, to 1.2 mm wide. Fronds crowded, to 9 per plant, caespitose, arching, to 300 mm long; stipe firm, green, basally sulcate, centrally raised apically, to 80 mm long, to 1 mm in diameter, sparsely scaled, scales chartaceus, castaneus to ferrugineous, clathrate, sessile, lanceolate to subulate, cordate to cordate-imbricate, with scattered filiform outgrowths terminating in an enlarged obovate gland-like cell along the margin, apex terminates in an oblong thin-walled cell, to 3 mm long, to 0.3 mm wide; lamina anadromous, 1-pinnate, linear-cuneate, to 230 mm long, to 27 mm wide, with up to 24 pinna pairs, proliferous, bud borne at the apex of a rachis extension; rachis green, firm, sulcate, centrally ridged, sparsely scaled, scales similar to, but smaller than, those on the stipe; pinnae petiolate, petiole to 1.5 mm long, opposite to alternate, basally widely spaced, pinnae in the lower third of the lamina gradually reduced, coriaceus, rhombic-dimidiate to cuneate, lobed, in the larger pinnae the proximal acroscopic lobe shallowly 2 to 3-lobed, to 13 mm long, to 9 mm wide, glabrous adaxially and abaxially; costa adaxially slightly raised. Venation anadromous, adaxially obscure, evident abaxially, ending in the teeth near the margin. Sori linear, lunate, medial on the simple vein branches, to 3 mm long; indusium membranous, semicircular, lacerate, to 3 mm long, to 1.5 mm wide; sporangium long-stalked, uniseriate, 3-seriate below capsule, capsule broadly elliptic in lateral view, with (18-)19(-19) indurated annulus cells, epistomium 2-celled, hypostomium 4-celled. Spores 64 per sporangium, brown, elliptic, monolete, echinate, fenestrate, (38-)41.27(-44) x (26-)28.17(-30) (m. Figure 49E & F.