Caudex short, erect; stipe to 30 cm long, distally light-castaneous, glabrous and glossy on abaxial surface, basal scales 7 mm long, no scales above base; lamina firm, to 40 cm long, consisting of a ± deeply trilobed apical section and one or two pairs of pinnae; upper pinnae short-stalked, to 14 × 5 cm, apex narrowly acuminate, base broadly cordate on basiscopic side; basal pinnae to 15 cm long, each with a large basiscopic lobe, stalks to 5 mm long; main veins at 45° to costae and 10-12 mm apart along it, cross-veins and areoles very irregular, smaller veins slender but distinct; surfaces, including costae, quite glabrous; sori many, small, very irregularly scattered, sometimes confluent, some on free veinlets in areoles but many on connected veins, no indusia seen.
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