Puerto Rico) | venation complexly reticulate | the areoles often with a free included veinlet. Sori normally round | indusium persistent | round-reniform | often appearing peltate by overlapping ofthe basal lobes. Rhizome erect | rhizome scales concolorous | brown | 3-5 mm long | 0.8-1 mm wide | margin strongly fimbriate | fronds mostly 70-170 cm long | stipe about equaling blade | stramineous to brownish | with scattered 0.1 mm long hairs | blade once-pinnate | oblong to ovate-oblong | 40-7 5 cm long | 20-60 cm wide | rachis glabrous or glabrescent | not gemmiferous in axils of pinnae | pinnae 3-10 pairs | oblique | terminal pinna with decurrent base | distal pinnae adnate basiscopically with decurrent base | basal pair short-stalked (to 5 mm) | with an elongate | acute | basal | basiscopic lobe | otherwise subentire or undulate | other pinnae mostly 20-25 cm long | 3.5-6(-7) cm wide | costae and costules glabrous below or with scattered 0.1 mm long hairs on veins | adaxial costae with dense to scattered 0.1 mm long hairs | areoles pentagonal or hexagonal | included free veinlets common | sori in two rows | one on either side of main lateral veins | indusia persistent | reniform or round | with a basal sinus | lobes overlapping | indusia thus appearing peltate | 1-1.3 mm diam. | glabrous. Rhizomes suberect | woody | 1–2 cm diam. | 3–5 x 0.8–1 mm | margins strongly fimbriate | fronds mostly 70–170 cm long | stipes about equaling blade | with scattered hairs 0.1 mm long | blades chartaceous | 1-pinnate | 40–75 x 20–60 cm | rachises glabrous or glabrescent | buds present or absent | pinnae 3–10 pairs | apical pinna with decurrent base | other pinnae mostly 20–25 x 3–6(–7) cm | indument abaxially absent on costae and costules | or of scattered hairs 0.1 mm long on veins | adaxially of dense to scattered hairs 0.1 mm long on costae | elsewhere hairs absent | vein areoles pentagonal or hexagonal | commonly with included free veinlets | sori round | in 2 rows | one row on each side of main lateral veins | 1–1.3 mm diam. | glabrous | 2n=80 (CR | Jam | Trin | Tobago | Peru) | 160 (Jam | Trin).

Puerto Rico) | venation complexly reticulate | the areoles often with a free included veinlet. Sori normally round | indusium persistent | round-reniform | often appearing peltate by overlapping ofthe basal lobes. Rhizome erect | rhizome scales concolorous | brown | 3-5 mm long | 0.8-1 mm wide | margin strongly fimbriate | fronds mostly 70-170 cm long | stipe about equaling blade | stramineous to brownish | with scattered 0.1 mm long hairs | blade once-pinnate | oblong to ovate-oblong | 40-7 5 cm long | 20-60 cm wide | rachis glabrous or glabrescent | not gemmiferous in axils of pinnae | pinnae 3-10 pairs | oblique | terminal pinna with decurrent base | distal pinnae adnate basiscopically with decurrent base | basal pair short-stalked (to 5 mm) | with an elongate | acute | basal | basiscopic lobe | otherwise subentire or undulate | other pinnae mostly 20-25 cm long | 3.5-6(-7) cm wide | costae and costules glabrous below or with scattered 0.1 mm long hairs on veins | adaxial costae with dense to scattered 0.1 mm long hairs | areoles pentagonal or hexagonal | included free veinlets common | sori in two rows | one on either side of main lateral veins | indusia persistent | reniform or round | with a basal sinus | lobes overlapping | indusia thus appearing peltate | 1-1.3 mm diam. | glabrous. Rhizomes suberect | woody | 1–2 cm diam. | 3–5 x 0.8–1 mm | margins strongly fimbriate | fronds mostly 70–170 cm long | stipes about equaling blade | with scattered hairs 0.1 mm long | blades chartaceous | 1-pinnate | 40–75 x 20–60 cm | rachises glabrous or glabrescent | buds present or absent | pinnae 3–10 pairs | apical pinna with decurrent base | other pinnae mostly 20–25 x 3–6(–7) cm | indument abaxially absent on costae and costules | or of scattered hairs 0.1 mm long on veins | adaxially of dense to scattered hairs 0.1 mm long on costae | elsewhere hairs absent | vein areoles pentagonal or hexagonal | commonly with included free veinlets | sori round | in 2 rows | one row on each side of main lateral veins | 1–1.3 mm diam. | glabrous | 2n=80 (CR | Jam | Trin | Tobago | Peru) | 160 (Jam | Trin).