Rhizome creeping, succulent at growing apex, 1.5-2 cm in diam., moderately scaly; scales pale brown, broadly lanceolate or ovate-subulate, 5-12 × 1.5-3.5 mm, thin and soft. Fronds approximate or remote, 0.5-1.2 m; stipe stramineous, 25-65 cm, 3-5 mm in diam., bases scaly as rhizome, upward scales diminishing to glabrescent; lamina 2-pinnate-pinnatifid, pale green when dried, ovate-deltoid, 25-60 × 20-50 cm, papery, base broadly cuneate, apex acuminate with a conform or nearly conform terminal pinna, rachis glabrescent; pinnae (1 or)2-4(-6) pairs, alternate, with 1-3 cm stalk, 5-10 cm apart, obliquely spreading; lowest pinna deltoid-lanceolate, 25-30 × 10-14 cm, base broadly cuneate, apex acuminate; primary pinnules 8-12 pairs, shortly stalked, spreading or slightly ascending, rhombic-lanceolate, occasionally falcate, 5-10 × 1.5-3.5 cm, base unequally cuneate, apex acuminate, margin pinnatifid; basal basiscopic primary pinnule sometimes elongated and pinnate; lobes with apex acute or acuminate, margin serrate with mucronate teeth; upper pinnae broadly lanceolate. Sori large, terminal on veinlets, 5-10 pairs per ultimate pinnule, medial or closer to midvein; indusia brown, firmly membranous, entire.
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