Plants up to 1 m tall. Rhizome erect or obliquely ascending, apex with dense, linear to broadly lanceolate, entire, brown scales. Fronds caespitose; stipe ca. 40 cm, ca. 7 mm in diam., base gray-brown, distally pale brown, with dense lanceolate, brown or dark brown scales; lamina oblong-lanceolate, up to 70 × ca. 28 cm, once pinnate, base not shortened, apex acuminate; pinnae 30-40 pairs, lower ones opposite, upper ones alternate, narrowly lanceolate, ca. 15 × 2 cm, base rounded, margin coarsely dentate or lobed, apex caudate-acuminate. Lamina nearly papery, subglabrous adaxially, clothed with subulate, serrulate, brownish black scales along costa abaxially; veins pinnate, lateral ones simple, distinct on both surfaces. Sori in 3 or 4 rows on each side, nearer to costa than margin; indusia brown, membranous, readily deciduous.
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