Stipes closely tufted, at the base only bearing flat brown scales, scales above base darker, setiform, the lower ones 10 mm long, shorter upwards; lamina c. 35 cm long; basal pinnae to 23 cm long bearing 10 pairs of pinnules, the basal basiscopic one 12 × 5 cm bearing 7 pairs of deeply lobed tertiary leaflets, 20 × 8 mm, their lobes 4 × 1.5 mm and lobulate; basal acroscopic pinnule 5 × 1.8 cm, bearing lobed tertiary leaflets to 10 × 6 mm; middle pinnae bearing several pairs of well-spaced lobed pinnules, the lobes to 5 × 3 mm, deeply lobulate; lower surface of pinna-rachises bearing scattered narrow scales 2 mm long with inflexed margins and isodiametric cells at the base; upper surface of all leaflets copiously glandular, the glands pale, thick, appressed, c. 0.1 mm long; sori at apices of veins; indusia firm, reniform, sometimes bearing glands.
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