Stems short-creeping to suberect, 5--8 mm diam. Leaves monomorphic, evergreen, clustered, 20--55(--80) cm. Petiole straw-colored, 5--18(--25) cm × 1--3 mm, at base with brown, lanceolate, stellate-hairy scales. Blade 15--40(--55) × 5--10 cm, proximal 2--5(--10) pairs of pinnae gradually reduced, blade gradually narrowed distally to a pinnatifid apex. Pinnae 18--25 pairs, 2--5(--8) × 1--1.5(--2) cm, deeply serrate to incised nearly 3/4 of width, distal pinnae often strongly adnate; segments of rather harsh texture, somewhat oblique, rounded-deltate to often acute; proximal pair of veins from adjacent segments united below sinus with excurrent vein. Indument on both surfaces of numerous, sessile or short-stalked, stellate hairs 0.1--0.2 mm on costae, veins, and blade tissue; rachises and costae sometimes with longer simple hairs to 0.8 mm abaxially. Sori round, medial to supramedial; indusia tan, densely stellate-hairy; sporangia glabrous. 2 n = 144.
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