Stipe to 21 cm long, base very dark, becoming reddish distally, rachis paler; basal scales to 5 mm long, base dilated with isodiametric cells, above base less than 1 mm wide with elongate cells. Lamina 20 cm long; free pinnae 18 pairs; basal pinnae largest, 5.5x1.8 cm, their lobes lobulate, 3-4 pairs basal lobes gradually shorter. Suprabasal pinnae to 4 x 1.2 cm, short-acuminate; basal pair of lobes lobulate, rest crenate; costules 3 mm apart; veins 4-5 pairs, very oblique; lower surface of rachis bearing short capitate hairs, of costae capitate hairs, glands and very narrow scales, acicular hairs lacking; upper surface of rachis bearing acicular hairs 0.5 mm long, shorter ones on costae and scattered on costules and veins, between veins many capitate hairs and a few short acicular hairs, no glands. Sori medial, distal ones athyrioid; indusia with a few glands, not hairs.
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