Rhizome to 4 mm diam., erect or procumbent; scales sessile, clathrate, lanceolate, 3-4 x 0.6-1.0 mm, acuminate, frequently with a hair point, irregularly serrate, sometimes bicolorous, with dark chestnut-brown central region, sometimes with darker apex, with paler margins throughout, with narrowly oblong to ovate cells. Fronds tufted, suberect to spreading; stipe 5-20(-30) mm long, dark chestnut-brown, densely scaled, scales sessile, lanceolate, 3-4 x 0.7-1.0 mm, acuminate, irregularly serrate, glossy, bicolorous, distally dark brown and proximally chestnut-brown with paler margins throughout, with narrowly oblong to ovate cells; lamina herbaceous, involute and inrolled when dry, elliptic to obovate in outline, pinnatisect to very shallowly 2-pinnatifid, (5-)70-100(-130) x (16-)24-33(-50) mm, lower pinnae gradually decrescent, occasionally produces 1-3 gemmae situated adaxially in the sinus of the distal pinnules; rachis almost winged throughout, scales as for stipe but 2.5-3.0 x 0.6-1.0 mm, concolorous reddish brown, sometimes chestnut-brown towards apex; pinnae (6-)10-20(-25) x (3-)4-6(-9) mm, adnate to rachis with decurrent base throughout, narrowly ovate-oblong, obtuse, margin entire to weakly sinuate, glabrous above at maturity, abaxially sparsely scaled, scales sessile, lanceolate, 1.7-2.4 x 0.6-0.8 mm, attenuate, finely serrate, glossy, brown, with oblong cells; sori linear along (obscure) veins, 2-3 mm long, becoming confluent at maturity, exindusiate, not totally obscured by scales.
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