Caudex short, erect or suberect; stipe dark cas-taneous, minutely hairy, to at least 22 cm long, basal scales to 7 mm long, not hair-pointed; lamina thin, to 28 cm long, deeply trilobed, its base not cordate, midlobe to 7 cm wide, narrowed to 1.2 cm at its base, lateral lobes to 18 × 5 cm, entire, short-acuminate; smaller veins concolorous on both surfaces, ± prominent; no bud present at base of frond; lower surface of costae and main veins minutely hairy, very short hairs variably present between veins, upper surface glabrous; sori small, mostly not on free veins in areoles, sometimes a little elongate; indusia very small and apparendy variable in shape, bearing many unicellular acicular hairs.
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