Caudex to 30 cm tall; stipes 20 cm long, dark castaneous at base, paler distally, short-hairy, basal scales 4-5x1.5 mm; rachis stramineous. Lamina to 25 cm long, subcoriaceous, rigid when dry; pinnae 15 pairs, lowest not reduced but slightly narrowed at base with basal acroscopic lobe sometimes dentate, not free. Suprabasal pinnae to 5x1.2 cm, short-acuminate; lobes oblique, hardly falcate, with rounded tips, basal ones at most slightly dentate; costules 2 mm or little more apart; veins 6 pairs, very oblique, pale and prominent on both surfaces; lower surface of rachis covered with hairs 0.3 mm long; hairs on costae few or none, scales on costae narrowly linear or with dilated bases, glands present on and between veins; hairs on upper surface of costae 0.5 mm long, no other hairs nor glands on upper surface. Sori medial, symmetric; indusia thin, glabrous.
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