Plants up to 60 cm tall. Rhizome erect or ascending, short, densely clothed with membranous, ovate, fimbriate, brown scales. Fronds caespitose; stipe stramineous, (4-)6-20 cm × ca. 3 mm, lower part sparsely clothed with broadly lanceolate, brown scales; lamina ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, (9-)20-50 × (3.5-)6-17 cm, once pinnate-pinnatifid, slightly narrowed at base; pinnae 12-20 pairs, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2-9 × 1.5-2.5 cm, base slightly broad, subsessile or shortly stalked, apex obtuse to shortly acuminate, basal 1 or 2 pairs slightly shortened; segments 5-10 pairs, oblong, margin slightly toothed, apex obtuse. Lamina papery, both surfaces glandular-pubescent, with sparse or few small scales on costa; veins pinnate, veinlets 2-or 3-forked. Sori abaxial on veinlets, 1-6 on each segment; indusia pale brown, slightly thick, entire, glandular-pubescent, perfectly covering sorus, persistent; spores 32 in each sporangia, elliptic, perispore granular.
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