Stipe 20-30 cm, covered near the base with soft dull brown matted hairs with a few longer rigid shining dark red-brown ones; upper part of stipe and main rachis dark, rather persistently covered with appressed soft brown matted hairs with a few rigid shining ones; largest pinnae 30-60 cm long; pinna-rachis dark brown, hairy on under surface as main rachis; largest pinnules 70-120 mm long, costa pale distally, dark near base, covered beneath with flaccid +-appressed light brown hairs, some with rigid dark apical portion; largest tertiary leaflets 10-20 mm long, fertile lobed to the costule, fertile lobes 3-5 pairs, the larger with forked vein and a sterile lobule which is rarely larger than the fertile one; sterile tertiary leaflets deeply lobed at base, less deeply upwards, larger lobes containing pinnately branched veins, edges of lobes almost entire.
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