Stipe to 35 cm long, very dark, glossy, glabrous except near apex which is dull reddish. Lamina 20 cm long; pinnae 18 pairs, rigid, several lower ones deflexed, lowest 1-2 pairs slightly reduced. Largest pinnae 3 cm long, to 1 cm wide, apex obtuse; lobes almost entire, basal acroscopic lobe slightly enlarged, almost free and slightly dentate; costules 2.5 mm apart; veins 4-5 pairs, sometimes forked in the basal acroscopic lobe; lower surface of rachis bearing copious acicular hairs 0.5 mm long, of costae bearing narrow scales 0.5-0.8 mm long, minute uniseriate scales also on costules and veins, no glands; upper surface glabrous apart from costae. Sori near costules; indusia rather large, glabrous.
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