Pteris epaleata

Rhizome erect, short and stout, covered with brown scales with slender tips. Fronds tufted, erect but arching at tips, 80–160 cm long, relatively soft-textured. Stipe long, stout, brown and purplish towards base, brown to olive-green above. Lamina 3–4-pinnate, broadly triangular, dark green, glabrous except for scattered, short hairs along lower surface of midveins and rachises; rachises often pale and yellowish. Pinnae narrower in fertile frond; primary pinnae distant, lower pinnae asymmetrically triangular to ovate; secondary pinnae triangular-ovate to ovate-oblong, bases decurrent, apices frequently tapering and serrate. Pinnules obliquely oblong, sessile, decurrent, margins broadly and deeply serrate or crenate; veins free towards margin but anastomosing to form series of areoles near midvein. Sori continuous along lateral margins, often extending down decurrent bases but never around tips.