Plants forming dense clones. Roots arising at nodes. Petioles 5--39 cm, hairy. Pinnae 9--35 × 8--39 mm, conspicuously white hairy abaxially, hairy adaxially; hairs often exceeding margin to make pinnae appear white margined from above. Sporocarp stalks erect, frequently branched, attached 2--4.5 mm above base of petiole; unbranched stalks or ultimate branches of stalks 8--17 mm; common trunk of branched stalks 1--5 mm (rarely 2--3 unbranched stalks attached separately to same petiole). Sporocarps strongly ascending, 6--9 × 4.5--5.5 mm, 2 mm thick, elliptic or quadrate in lateral view, covered with matted or twisted hairs; raphe 1.6--2.4 mm, proximal tooth 0.4--0.5 mm, blunt, distal tooth absent or present as slightly raised area. Sori 19--23.
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