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Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Trunk greyish brown, densely clothed with scars of fallen leaves. |
Leaves : | Crown of fronds at the top of the trunk; fronds bipinnate, 200 cm long; stipes ca. 100 cm long, with stout base, long brown hairy throughout; pinnae ca. 12 pairs, alternate, distinctly petiolate; pinnules 7.5-12 x 1.5-2.5 cm, pinnatifid, lobes alternate, oblong, 0.7-1.5 x 0.2-0.4 cm, margin crenate, membranous; nerves forked. |
Fruit and Seed : | Spore producing structures ‘sori’ spherical seated on nerves forks. |