Plants ca. 30 cm tall. Rhizome creeping or ascending, with dense, gray-brown, long hairs. Fronds ± clustered; stipe straw-colored, 9-14 cm, ca. 1 mm in diam., with dense, gray, articulate hairs when young, abscising to leave scabrous marks when old; rachis and stalk concolorous, rachillae with dense, gray, articulate hairs; lamina green or yellow-green when dried, 2-pinnatisect, oblong-lanceolate in outline, 10-20 × 4.5-7.5 cm, herbaceous, both surfaces with dense gray, articulate, long hairs, apex acuminate; pinnae 10-14 pairs, opposite or almost alternate, 1.5-2.5 cm apart, spreading obliquely upward or slightly curved, lower pinnae pinnatifid or pinnatisect, 3-5 × 1.5-2.5 cm, with short, narrowly winged stalk or almost sessile; ultimate segments 6-8 pairs, oblong or broadly lanceolate, 10-17 × ca. 5 mm, anadromous; basal acroscopic pinnules longest, parallel with rachis, base cuneate, decurrent and connected with costa, both sides lobed, apex sharply 2-or 3-serrate; lobules with 1-3 small sharp teeth at apex. Veins pinnate and furcate, not reaching tip of teeth, each small sharp tooth with one veinlet, hydathode obscure. Sori orbicular, axillary on lobules; indusium green, shallowly bowl-shaped, hairy.
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