Caudex to 30 cm tall. Stipe 30 cm long, glabrous, dark purplish at base, distally dull reddish, basal scales 5x1.2 mm. Lamina to 35 cm long; pinnae 22 pairs, widely spaced; two pairs lower pinnae deflexed but not reduced; lowest pair somewhat narrowed at base, basal acroscopic lobe elongate, dentate, not free. Suprabasal pinnae to 7x1.5 cm, acuminate; lobes oblique, falcate, margins at base dentate, apex rounded and entire; costules 3.5 mm apart; veins 6-7 pairs; lower surface of rachis bearing many capitate and fewer acicular hairs, of costae bearing capitate hairs or small glands and linear scales, no glands seen between veins; upper surface of rachis bearing hairs 0.7 mm long, those on costae shorter, costules and veins with sparse hairs, none between veins. Sori inframedial, distal ones mostly symmetric; indusia bearing capitate hairs.
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