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Plants ca. 50 cm tall. Rhizomes erect, with dense brown short hairs at margins, lanceolate scales at apices. Fronds clustered; stipes 14-20 cm, dark stramineous, with scales and throughout with mixed grayish white different-sized acicular hairs; laminae lanceolate, 30-40 × ca. 10 cm, slightly narrowed to bases, 1-pinnate, pinnatifid-acuminate at apices; pinnae 10-14 pairs, alternate, obliquely spreading, almost sessile, except for proximal several pairs of pinnae slightly reduced others ± adnate to rachises; proximal pinnae slightly reduced, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 4 × 1.5 cm, bases rounded-cuneate, not symmetrical, apices shortly acute; middle pinnae lanceolate, ca. 6 × 1.8 cm, bases rounded-cuneate, margins pinnately lobed, apices acuminate; costae raised on both sides. Veins evident, veinlets obliquely spreading, 1 or 2 veinlets joining into 2 or 3 triangular or subrhomboid areoles. Laminae grayish green when dry, herbaceous, both surfaces with dense appressed setae along veins, with sparse short hairs abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Sori linear, attached along veinlets, exindusiate; sporangia glabrous.

● Forests at roadsides; ca. 1300 m. Sichuan (Xingwen).