Caudex short, erect or suberect; stipe to 17 cm long, very dark, minutely hairy throughout, basal scales 5 mm long, very narrow; lamina simple, of young plants ovate-acute with deeply cordate base and irregularly shallowly lobed margin, of mature plants firm, 3-lobed to sub-5-lobed, to 12 cm long from top of stipe to apex and 11 cm wide, the lobes obtuse, irregularly slightly lobulate; both surfaces bearing many short slender erect hairs throughout; sori on free veinlets in areoles, rather large, irregularly arranged; indusia hairy.
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