Rhizome without the scales 0.8-1.3 mm diam., white waxy under the scales. Scales red-brown with pale border from base to apex or not, narrowed evenly towards the apex, often curling backward, not bearing multiseptate hairs, toothed, peltate, 5-8 by 0.5 mm. Stipes pale, adaxially grooved, 0.5-7 cm long, glabrous or with few scales. Lamina simple, one pectinate or pinnatifid leaf, or pinnate towards the base, ovate, bearing multicellular hairs, or glabrous, 2-16 by 1.8-5 cm, leaf not or slightly dimorphous. False veins not present. Veins in ultimate lobes pinnate. Sori separate, borne several on a segment at the forking point of veins. Indusium attached at the broad base and hardly or not at the sides, semicircular, wider than long or about as wide as long, 1.1-1.8 by 1.2-1.8 mm, upper margin not elongated, truncate or slightly rounded, extending to lamina margin or not.
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