Caudex not seen; stipe to 50 cm long, dark purplish-brown, glabrescent, rachis similar, both bearing narrow dark glossy scales; basal scales to 10 × 1.5 mm; lamina to at least 50 cm long; pinnae 7 pairs or more, well spaced; basal pinnae of type specimen 16 cm long (stalk 10 mm) with 1 pair of separately adnate pinnules, basal basiscopic pinnule 7 cm long, deeply lobed, its lobes 7 mm apart; middle pinnae deeply lobed at their bases, lobes crenate, costules 10-12 mm apart; lateral veins in lobes mostly forked; lower surface of pinna-rachis short-hairy near its base, short scales present throughout; upper surface of pinnae bearing thick hairs between the veins; sori terminal on acroscopic vein-branches; indusia thin, often with short slender hairs; sporangia bearing short capitate hairs near the annulus.
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