Caudex short, suberect, its apex covered with narrow light brown scales; stipe very dark, glabrous, 25 cm long; lamina to 20 cm long and wide, its base subcordate, near base lobed halfway to the costa, less deeply distally, lobes subcaudate, the lowest largest and sometimes with a basiscopic acuminate lobule; lower surface rather densely covered with rufous hairs 0.2 mm long which are more dense near the margin, upper surface glabrous except near the margin; sori small, irregularly scattered, mostly not on free veinlets; indusia firm, dark, persistent, subpeltate, bearing a few hairs like those on the lower surface between veins:
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