Rhizome short-creeping, 10-25 mm thick, densely scaly; scales 8-14 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, with numerous short spines on the upper surface and margins. Fronds crowded. Stipe 40-90 cm long, densely scaly and hairy, scabrous. Lamina 3-pinnate, pentagonal, 340-100 cm long, 30-90 cm wide, green to grey-green, dull, thin but stiff; lamina and rachis covered with short stiff white hairs. Ultimate segments oblong; margins ±entire, crenate or lobed; apex obtuse. Sori small; indusium dark brown, fringed with hairs.
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