Stipe dark, glossy, 8-12 cm long, hairs on adaxial side short; scales 8-10 x 1.5-2 mm; rachis reddish, green towards apex. Lamina to 26 cm long; pinnae 12 pairs; lower 3-5 pairs pinnae deflexed and short-stalked, narrowed at base on both sides. Largest pinnae 5.5 x 1.5 cm (of var. elata 8.5 x 2.0 cm), short-acuminate; lobes oblique (except basal ones) and slightly falcate, almost or quite entire; costules 3.5 mm apart; veins to 6 pairs, grooved above and flat beneath; lower surface quite glabrous, some small dark scales present on costae; upper surface hairy on rachis and costae, scattered hairs on margins of lobes. Sori near margin; indusia thin, glabrous.
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