Stipe to 45 cm long, light castaneous, basal scales thin, flat, narrow, 15 mm long, scales above base spreading, dark brown, with inflexed margins, gradually shorter upwards; lamina to 37 cm long, 20 cm wide, thin, with 9 or 10 pairs of free and 3 or 4 pairs of adnate pinnae; basal pinnae 11.5 cm long, bearing 2 or 3 pairs of pinnules, the lowest ones 4 × 1 cm, lobed almost to their costae with 1 almost free slightly crenate tertiary leaflet 7x3 mm; pinnules of middle pinnae all deeply lobed; lower surface of pinna-rachises bearing narrow scales 2-3 mm long which have inflexed margins and clathrate bases, also many short hairs, upper surface covered with thick short hairs; sori a little inframedial; indusia thin, small, reniform, bearing pale red glands.
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