Caudex apparently short-creeping with tufted fronds: stipe 20-30 cm long, ferrugineous, short-hairy, scaly near the base only, scales black, rigid, 7 mm long, less than 1 mm wide; lamina to 20 cm long, consisting of 2 pairs of pinnae and a deeply lobed apical section 12 cm long, dark rusty brown when dried; basal pinnae of type 8 cm long (stalk 2 mm), acuminate, lobed to 4-5 mm from its costa, basal basiscopic lobe 6 × 1.5 cm and shallowly lobulate, the other lobes subentire, of Ramos 4710 to 20 cm long; upper pinnae slightly adnate, lobed halfway to costa, lobes oblique, rounded; veins forming narrow areoles along costae and costules, also a second series below sinuses and in broader lobes; many very short erect hairs between veins on both surfaces; sori mostly on the outer veins of costal and costular areoles; indusia small, bearing short hairs, soon caducous.
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