Cyclosorus interruptus

Rhizome long-creeping, slender, growing tips covered in scales. Fronds erect, to 1 m; stipe 45–60 cm long, glabrous, dark brown at base, paler and flattened above, shallowly grooved. Lamina oblong-lanceolate, pinnate with pinnae moderately to deeply lobed, mid-green and glossy above, paler beneath, coriaceous, glabrous on upper surface; rachis and mid-rib deeply grooved, grooves not connecting, rachis moderately or densely covered with scales and scattered red glands, under surface of mid-rib and veins covered in scales. Pinnae tapering in length from stipe to apex, oblong to lanceolate; lobes acute, triangular or ovate, sometimes slightly falcate, margin entire or crenulate, weakly recurved; veins free except for lowest veins in adjacent lobes which join to form single excurrent vein. Sori copious, round; indusium kidney-shaped, covered with acicular hairs and scattered glands; spores black.