Rhizome very stout, up to 1 cm. diam., reduced to a stock, densely clad in long red bristly hairs; stipites close-set to tufted. Stipes 8-15 cm. long, stout, with broad flat wing nearly to base; wing becoming fragmentary in age. Rhachis stout, broadly to rather narrowly winged. Lamina 15-25 cm. long or more, about ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pale green, 3-4-pinnatifid. Primary pinnae up to 10 cm. long; final segs linear, obtuse to retuse. Sori free. Indusium c. 1 mm. long, oblong to suborbicular, 2-valved to base; valves convex, entire. Receptacle not or hardly exserted.
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