Stipe 4-20 cm long, bearing scales throughout; basal scales to more than 15 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, thin, not toothed; lamina to 100 cm long; rachis very copiously short-hairy on the lower surface with some very narrow scales; pinnae many pairs, distal and lower ones gradually smaller; middle pinnae to c. 14 × 1.5 cm, acroscopic base truncate with a ± distinct acute auricle, basiscopic base strongly cordate, margins entire or irregularly undulate, apex of pinnae of larger fronds narrowly acuminate, short-acuminate on small fronds; basal pinnae c. 1 cm long and wide with cordate acroscopic base; sori exindusiate, in 1 or 2 irregular rows parallel to the costa, the inner row terminal on basal acroscopic veinlets, the outer row mostly not terminal on next veinlets.
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