Stipe to 25 cm, dark, upper part and rachis dull reddish; soft pale hairs on abaxial surface; scales 3-4 x 1 mm, thin. Lamina to 43 cm long; pinnae to 24 pairs; basal pinnae a little reduced, slightly narrowed at base, basal lobe not free. Suprabasal pinnae 7.5x1.7 cm, sessile, base truncate and a little dilated both sides, apex acuminate; lobes slightly oblique, slightly crenate; costules 3.5 mm apart; veins to 8 pairs; rachis and costae beneath bearing short acicular hairs, few on costules, very small capitate hairs on surface between veins, many small scales on costae and costules; hairs on upper surface of costae longer, some consisting of 2 cells, sparse hairs on costules and veins. Sori medial; indusia large, thin, short-hairy.
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