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Caudex short, suberect, scales to 5 mm long, medium brown, irregukirly fringed with slender hairs when young; fronds strongly dimorphous. Sterile frond: stipe to 20 cm long, light castaneous, scaly near base only, short-hairy distally; lamina to 25 cm long; pinnae to 3 pairs; basal pinnae to 15 cm long, the largest bearing 1 pair of entire pinnules, rest of pinna deeply lobed near its base only; suprabasal pinnae shallowly lobed to subentire with rounded to subcordate base; apical lamina deltoid with few broad entire lobes; both surfaces minutely hairy on costae and main veins, marginal hairs on upper surface; very few and short; veins amply anastomosing, with many free veinlets, some branched, in areoles. Fertile frond: stipe to 50 cm long; lamina as sterile but all parts much contracted; basal pinnae to 10 cm long; sori all on free veinlets in areoles, impressed, with large thin entire indusia.
