Caudex short, erect; stipe to 22 cm long, dark-castaneous, bearing short stiff erect hairs and scales throughout; basal scales to 12 mm long, 0.5 mm wide at the base, apex filiform, very dark, scales on stipe and rachis 2-3 mm long, very narrow; lamina to 25 cm long, firm, drying dark brown on lower surface; pinnae to 5 pairs free and 3 pairs adnate, horizontal, hardly upcurved distally; basal pinnae 7 cm long with 1 pair of free pinnules, basal basiscopic one 2.2 × 0.9 cm, acroscopic 1.5 cm long; other pinnae lobed almost to their costae near the base, costules to 8 mm apart, lobes obtuse and slightly crenate; lower surface of costae bearing erect hairs 0.2-0.4 mm long, fewer and shorter hairs on veins, few between veins; upper surface of costae bearing dense thick hairs 0.4 mm long, between veins hairs only present near the margin; sori on acroscopic branches of veins, nearer to margin than to costule; indusia reniform, firm, with a few short hairs.
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