Caudex erect, to 50 cm tall; stipe to more than 60 cm long, basal scales to 25 mm long and 1 mm wide, dull brown, thin, decrescent upwards, scales on upper part and on rachis 5-7 mm long, copious, very narrow, stiffly spreading with edges in-rolled; lamina to 75 cm long, firm, opaque; free pinnae to 5 pairs and 5 pairs adnate; basal pinnae to 28 cm long, basal pinnules free, then a few pairs increasingly adnate, basal basiscopic pinnule to 9.5 × 2 cm, not or little longer than the next one, deeply lobed, the lobes entire, basal acroscopic pinnule to 4 × 1.2 cm, pinnules and lobes of middle pinnae not deeply lobed; lower surface of pinna-rachis bearing very narrow spreading scales 3-4 mm long; some cylindric glands present on lower surface of pinna-lobes; smaller veins not evident on either surface; sori mostly on both branches of a forked vein; indusia very small, bearing when young elongate glands.
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