Rhizome erect to ascending, densely scaly. Fronds caespitose; stipe purplish brown, subnitid, 15-17 cm, incrassate at base, sparsely scaly; scales brown, broadly ovate, ca. 5 × 3 mm, membranous, entire, acute or obtuse; lamina ovate, 20-30 × 10-15 cm, bipinnatifid, base cordate, apex abruptly acuminate; pinnae ca. 8 pairs, subopposite, remote, patent, middle pinnae lanceolate, 6-10 × 2.5-4 cm, shortly stalked, apex acuminate; pinnules oblong, base broadly adnate, margin crenate-serrulate, apex obtuse, lower ones ovate, pinnatifid, base broadly cuneate to truncate, shortly stalked, apex obtuse, basiscopic pinnules 1.5-2 × 1-1.5 cm; lower pinnae triangular-ovate, inequilateral, 8-15 × 5-8 cm, basiscopic pinnules 4-6 × 2-2.5 cm. Lamina rigidly herbaceous, both surfaces glabrous; rachis glabrous, subnitid. Indusia orbicular-reniform.
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