Rhizomes 0.5–1 cm diameter; rhizome scales linear-lanceolate in outline, 10 mm, dark reddish brown, shiny, with long-ciliate margin. Fronds dimorph, pinnately divided. Sterile fronds 55–68 cm long; stipe 1/5 the frond length, brown, with linear scales, especially near the stipe base; lamina narrowly oblong in outline, 35–45 x 20–36 cm; pinnae oblong in outline, 10–12 pairs, 8–11 x 2.5–5 cm, base rounded, distally abruptly narrowed to subcaudate apex, margin entire or irregularly crenulate; rhachises and costae with sparse reduced scales and kinky hairs, not winged; lamina with scattered long-armed stellate hairs; veins simple or once-forked, prominulous; laminar surface glabrous or with sparse minute hairs. Fertile fronds: 12–16 pairs of pinnae, 7–10 x 0.4–0.6 cm, stalked 2–4 mm.

congoensis: from Congo, the type specimen is from Cabinda Province, formerly called Portuguese Congo, in Angola.

Trunks of trees along streams in wet forest.

See African distribution.

Angola, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Uganda.

Epiphytic.