Rhizome without the scales 1.4-2.6 mm diam., white waxy under the scales. Scales red-brown, with pale border from base to apex, narrowed evenly towards the apex, not or seldom curling backward, bearing multiseptate hairs at least when young, peltate, 5 by 1.1-1.5 mm. Stipes pale or dark brown, adaxially grooved, 5-18 cm long, glabrous or with few scales. Lamina simple, one pectinate or pinnatifid leaf, narrowly ovate, elon-gate, often narrowing towards the base, bearing multicellular hairs or glabrous, 4-21 by 2.5-8 cm. Longest pinnae 1.5-3.2 by 0.3-0.5 cm. False veins not present. Sori separate at the forking point of veins or at the bending point of a vein. Indusium attached at the broad base and hardly or not at the sides, semicircular, wider than or about as wide as long, 0.6-0.8 by 0.6-1 mm, upper margin not elongated, truncate or slightly rounded, extending to the lamina margin or not. In some collections, e.g.: Brass 13301 (New Guinea) and Posthumus s.n. (Java), the scales are not hairy.
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