Rhizome short, erect or ascending, sts shortly creeping, clad in dark brown subulate-acuminate paleae 5-8 mm. long; stipites tufted to approximate. Stipes slender to stout, us. stiff to rigid, erect or ascending, pale green, 5-15 cm. long, sparingly paleate when young. Rhachis slender to stout, grey-green, sparingly paleate to nude. Lamina dark green, subcoriac., 7-25 × 2.5-10-(15) cm., ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-3-pinnate. Primary pinnae 3-5-(10) × 1-4 cm., ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, stalked, up to 28. Secondary pinnae c. 2 × 1-2 cm., ovate-oblong, often overlapping, pinnatisect or again pinnate; segs linear-lanceolate to linear, up to 5 mm. long, acute to subacute, sts apiculate. Sori oblong, submarginal, 2-4 mm. long; indusium firm.
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