Rhizome densely covered with long rufous linear hairs and also a few deciduous linear scales near apex, hairs 2-6 mm. Stipe 1.5-3 cm, densely hairy; hairs brown or rufous, nodose, 0.3-0.6 mm; lamina lanceolate in outline, 1.5-8 × 0.5-1.5 cm, dark green when dry, base cuneate, margin densely ciliate, apex obtuse; pinnae 4-7 pairs, alternate, distant, oblique, shortly stalked, triangular-ovate, basal pair slightly shorter; middle pinnae 5-15 × 4-8 mm, base obliquely cuneate, pinnatipartite, apex obtuse; pinnules 1-3 pairs, alternate, oblique, subligulate or spatulate, 2-3 × ca. 1 mm, entire or subentire, apex obtuse. Sori linear-oblong, short, along veins except their ends, often confluent.
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