Rhizome shortly creeping and irregularly branched, up to 2 mm in diam. Fronds erect to arching, up to 640 mm long. Stipe terete and firm, dark brown to black and glossy, up to 350 mm long, up to 1.2 mm in diam. Lamina ovate to broadly, up to 300 x 200 mm, up to 3-pinnate, with up to 12 pinna pairs. Rachis and lower order axes dark brown and glossy. Pinnae, pinnules and segments petiolate; ultimate segments thinly herbaceous, glabrous, up to 10 x 10 mm, base mostly cuneate or narrowly cuneate, mostly longer than wide, outer margins variously lobed, outer lobe margins denticulate, venation evident, forked, ending in sinus between teeth, petioles up to 2 mm long. Sori borne along outer margin of ultimate segment lobes, up to 5 per ultimate segment. Sporangia confined to veins or near veins on membranous, near circular soral flaps up to 2 mm in diam.
Rhizome slender, short, creeping, set with castaneous, broadly lanceolate, entire rhizome-scales up to 1.5 mm long. Fronds tufted, arching, thinly herbaceous; stipe castaneous, glabrous, up to 300 mm long; lamina broadly ovate-deltate, up to 250 x 220 mm, 3-to 4-pinnate; ultimate segments obcuneate to trapeziform, up to 11 x 8 mm, with filiform petiolules, not articulated, outer margins minutely crenate-serrate, veins ending in sinuses, glabrous on both surfaces; rhachis and secondary rhachises castaneous, glabrous. Sori borne on outer margins of ultimate segments; indusial flaps subcircular to reniform, c. 1.5 mm in diameter.
Rhizomes creeping, scaly. Stipes and rachises glabrous except at very base. Laminae ovate or elliptic, 12-30 × 6-18 cm, 3-4-pinnate at base. Primary pinnae alternate, 9-12 on each side of rachis. Ultimate pinnules very variable in size and shape, generally longer than broad, narrowly obovate, obovate, broadly obovate, or rhombic, 5-17 × 3-16 mm, cuneate at base, with stalk attached ± centrally, most divided into 2 or more distinct lobes, glabrous, bright green. Indusia ± reniform with prominent sinuses, glabrous, 1-8 per pinnule on outer margin only.
Perennial with widely spreading rhizome. Fronds arching, stipe glabrous, lamina ovate-deltate, 3-or 4-pinnate, ultimate segments obcuneate, outer margins minutely cuneate-serrate, veins ending in sinuses between marginal teeth. Sori on outer margins of ultimate segments, indusial flaps reniform.
Rhizome creeping, set with rhizome scales up to 1.5 mm long. Fronds 3-or 4-pinnate. Veins of sterile pinnules ending in sinuses between marginal teeth or crenations of teeth. Ultimate segments not articulated, persistent. Sori orbicular.