Plants 10-20 cm tall. Rhizomes short, erect or ascending, scaly; scales dark brown, linear-lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, membranous, margin entire. Fronds clustered; stipe stramineous or brownish stramineous, lustrous, 5-10 cm, ca. 1 mm in diam., continuous, with fibrous small scales and articulate hairs, later partly fallen; rachis sparsely hairy when old, stipes and rachises persistent after pinnae fallen; lamina basally 2-pinnatifid, apically pinnatifid, lanceolate, 5-10 × 1-2 cm herbaceous, both surfaces densely covered with rusty, articulate long hairs, especially when young, base not or slightly shortened, apex acuminate; pinnae 6-9 pairs, sessile, lower pairs well separated, not or slightly shortened; middle pinnae ovate or subrhombic, 7-12 mm, base broadly cuneate, margin lobed, apex obtuse; ultimate segments 2-4 pairs, hemielliptic, entire or undulate. Veins obscure, pinnate, veinlets not reaching laminar margin. Sori orbicular, located on acroscopic veinlets, 1-3 per segment, medial or supramedial; indusia consisting of 8-10 long, curly hairs. 2n = 328.
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