Rhizome erect, densely covered with scales; scales dark brown, lanceolate. Fronds caespitose. Stipes 20-40 cm, stramineous, densely covered with scales at base; scales light brown, lanceolate; scales on upper part of stipe sparse, toothed. Lamina ovate-lanceolate, 25-40 × 15-20 cm, bipinnate. Pinnae 10-15 pairs, ascending, lanceolate, subopposite or alternate, 10-15 × 4-5 cm. Pinnules 10-12 pairs, lanceolate, 2-3 × ca. 1 cm, cuneate, sessile or subsessile, pinnatifid, apex acute. Segments toothed at apex. Veins pinnate, obscure adaxially, distinct abaxially. Lamina herbaceous, dark green and subglabrous adaxially, yellowish green and scaly abaxially; scales on rachis and base of pinna rachis dense, light brown, lanceolate; scales on middle of pinna rachis bullate at base. Sori in 1 row on either side of costa, medial; indusia reniform, entire. n = 82.
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