Stems short-creeping; scales reddish brown, concolored, margins entire. Leaves arching or pendent, clustered, 30--45 cm. Petiole 1--1.5 mm diam., glabrous, not glaucous. Blade lanceolate, pinnate, 20--24 × 8--10 cm, gradually reduced distally, glabrous; proximal pinnae 3(--4)-pinnate; rachis straight, glabrous, not glaucous. Segment stalks 1--4 mm, with dark color ending abruptly at segment base. Ultimate segments fan-shaped, not quite as long as broad; base truncate or broadly cuneate; margins of fertile segments unlobed but very narrowly incised, sterile segments with margins lobed, denticulate; apex rounded. Indusia transversely oblong, 3--10 mm, glabrous. Spores mostly 40--50 µm diam. 2 n = 60 .