Plants 30-50 cm tall. Rhizome erect, short; scales dense, ferruginous, oblong-lanceolate. Fronds caespitose; stipe dark brown, 8-18 cm, ca. 5 mm in diam., with large, ovate-orbicular, brown scales; lamina oblong-lanceolate, 20-35 × 8-10 cm, bipinnate, rarely tripinnate, base slightly narrowed, apex obtuse; pinnae 18-20 pairs, middle ones 3.5-5 × 1.2-2 cm, lanceolate, widest at base, sessile, apex obtuse, basal pair 2.5-4 cm, ovate-lanceolate; pinnules 8-10 pairs, oblique, approximate, oblong, base adnate to costa, margin crenate, apex rounded, regularly deltoid-dentate, several basal pairs rarely pinnately lobed. Lamina papery; veins distinct on both surfaces; rachis and costa densely clothed with lanceolate and linear-lanceolate, brown scales, and sparse fibrillose scales; pinnae glabrous adaxially, with fibrillose scales abaxially. Sori 2-4 on each side of costule; indusia brown, membranous, with irregular teeth.
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