Stipe at least 70 cm long, reddish when old; basal scales rigid, 10 x 1 mm, base thickened and edges inrolled; scales above base copious, persistent, dark, hair-pointed, entire, 5-7 mm long, hardly 0.5 mm wide, basal part terete; main rachis similarly and persistently scaly. Pinnae commonly 35 cm long, maximum 50 cm; pinna-rachis pale with darker spreading rigid entire scales which are almost wholly terete; pinnules commonly 8x 1.8 cm, bearing tertiary leaflets connected by a narrow wing, axis of pinnule scaly as pinna-rachis but scales smaller, hair-pointed; tertiary leaflets lobed half-way to costule; lower surface of lamina bearing short capitate hairs. Sori one to each lobe of a tertiary leaflet; indusium small, with capitate hairs; sporangia with similar hairs.
In rather open places at 500-1250 m, sometimes abundant, but very local; only found at one place on Mt Kinabalu.
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