Plants 75-150 cm tall. Rhizomes ascending, with dense brown broadly lanceolate scales on apices. Fronds subclustered; stipes 20-50 cm, dark brown at bases and sparsely scaly, distally stramineous and glabrous; laminae oblong-lanceolate, 50-100 × 20-30 cm, abruptly narrowed at bases, pinnate-pinnatifid, pinnatifid-acuminate at apices; proximal pairs of pinnae becoming auricles or hastate; middle normal pinnae 20-25 pairs, spreading, sessile, alternate, narrowly lanceolate, 15-18 × 1.5-3 cm, slightly broadened at bases and broadly cuneate, pinnatifid nearly to costae, pinnatifid and long acuminate at apices; segments 20-30 pairs, oblique distally, lanceolate, proximal pair clearly elongated to ca. 15 mm, distal ones 7-12 × 2-4 mm, entire, obtuse-pointed at apices. Veins evident on both sides, costules raised, 9-12 pairs of veinlets per segment, proximal pair arising from base of costules, acroscopic veinlet reaching bottom of sinus, basiscopic one reaching margin above sinus. Laminae dark green when dry, papery; abaxially finely hairy along rachises, costae, and veins, adaxially densely appressed-setaceous along costal grooves, sparsely setaceous on apices of costae, veinlets, and margins, glabrous on intercostal areas. Sori orbicular, attached on middle of veinlets; indusia orbicular-reniform, brownish, thickly membranous, glabrous, persistent.

● Wetlands in valleys, streamsides; 500-700 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang.