Rhizome with dense scales at apex; scales brown, linear-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, slightly curled; frond caespitose. Fertile frond up to 80 cm. Stipe brown, up to 30 cm, ca. 4 mm in diam., with dense smaller scales than on rhizome. Lamina pinnate, elliptic, up to 50 × 20 cm, herbaceous, slightly narrowed to base; free pinnae 1-5 pairs; basal pinnae slightly shorter, opposite or subopposite; upper pinnae sessile or very shortly stalked, slightly oblique, lanceolate, oblique or subfalcate, base truncate, margin often wavy, occasionally slightly lobed, apex acuminate, shortly pointed; pinna lobes symmetrical, wide, oval, apex blunt. Veins reticulate, distally free, evident. Lamina brown when dried; both sides of rachis, costae, and midribs coarse with small wormlike scales, or with short multicellular hairs, dense on abaxial side, sparse on adaxial side. Sori 2 or 3 pairs per veinlet group, double or single; indusia brown when mature. Spores semicircular. n = 41 (but needs reexamination).
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