Rhizome long-creeping, 5-8 mm thick, scaly towards the apex; scales 0.2-1 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, dark brown. Fronds crowded. Stipe 15-40 cm long; base scaly and densely covered with pale, spreading hairs to 4 mm long. Lamina 3-pinnate, pentagonal, 15-40 cm long, 5-30 cm wide, dull green, thin, glabrous or with scattered whitish glandular hairs; undersurface of rachises clothed with fine spreading whitish hairs. Ultimate segments oblong to lanceolate; margins entire to shallowly crenulate; apex subacute to obtuse. Sori small, medial on simple veinlets or nearly terminal on forked veinlets, exindusiate.
Grows mainly in rainforest, less commonly in damp, shaded gullies in open forest; usually on basalt loams.
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