Plants evergreen. Rhizome erect, densely covered with broadly lanceolate brown scales. Fronds ca. 25 cm; stipe stramineous, 4-10 cm, ca. 2 mm in diam. at base, indistinctly canaliculate adaxially, densely scaly; scales brown, lanceolate and linear, toothed. Lamina 1-pinnate, lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 13-20 × 1.5-3 cm, contracted at base, acuminate; rachis without proliferous bulbils, adaxially scaly, scales brown, linear or narrowly lanceolate, twisted, abaxially densely scaly, scales brown, narrowly lanceolate, twisted. Pinnae 22-30 pairs, alternate, lower pairs slightly angled basiscopically, other pairs attached at right angles to rachis, shortly stalked, approximate, ovate, middle pinnae 8-15 × 6-8 mm, bases obliquely broadly cuneate, sometimes acroscopic bases with semi-orbicular auricles, margins slightly revolute with spinulose teeth, sometimes lower part shallowly lobed, apices rounded with acute tips; abaxially scaly; microscales yellowish brown, filiform, twisted; frond texture thinly leathery, venation pinnate, lateral veins forked, indistinct on both surfaces. Sori in 1 row on each side of midrib; indusia present, margins irregular.
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