Caudex short, suberect, its apex densely covered with mid-brown narrow scales 5 mm long; stipe 20 cm long, very dark, glossy; lamina ovate in outline, to 18 × 12 cm, base deeply cordate with the basal lobes overlapping, near base lobed 1/3 towards the midrib, distally less deeply, the lobes contiguous, larger ones falcate and abruptly sub-caudate; lower surface quite glabrous, upper surface with some short hairs near the margin; sori irregularly arranged, not on free veins in areoles; indusia persistent, entire, reniform to peltate.
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