Plants 50-60 cm tall. Rhizome erect, short, densely clothed with lanceolate, brown scales. Fronds caespitose; stipe stramineous, 20-30 cm, base densely clothed with lanceolate, brownish black scales, upper portion toward rachis densely clothed with linear or subulate, brownish black, ciliate scales; lamina lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, up to 30 cm, ca. 15 cm wide at middle, once pinnate, base not narrowed; pinnae ca. 20 pairs, nearly spreading, lanceolate, middle pinnae 8-10 × 1.2-1.5 cm, base truncate, subsessile, margin coarsely dentate to pinnately lobed, apex acuminate. Lamina papery; pinna rachis and veins sparsely clothed with brownish black scales abaxially; lateral veins simple. Sori on middle of veinlets, scattered on each side of costa; indusia orbicular-reniform.
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