Rhizome erect, up to 4 mm in diam., with dark brown to black, lanceolate-acuminate, entire scales, up to 3.5 mm long. Fronds caespitose, erect to arching. Stipe firm, dark brown to black, up to 75 mm long, up to 1.2 mm in diam. Lamina 1-pinnate, narrowly elliptic to oblong-acuminate, up to 300 x 30 mm, with up to 45 pinna pairs, proliferous on rachis near apex. Pinnae herbaceous, oblong-obtuse, falcate, crenate-serrate, glabrous adaxially, sparsely minutely scaled abaxially. Sori linear, up to 4 mm long. Indusium membranous, ovate-oblong, entire, up to 1 mm wide.
Perennial with short, erect to suberect rhizome. Fronds to 35 cm, arching, proliferous on rachis near apex, stipe glabrous at maturity, lamina linear-lanceolate, 1-pinnate, pinnae to 35 mm long, oblong-obtuse, falcate, auriculate acroscopically, crenate-serrate, sparsely minutely scaled beneath. Sori linear, indusium entire.
Rhizome erect, set with dark brown to black rhizome scales. Proliferating bud borne on rhachis on or below terminal segment. Pinnae oblong-obtuse, falcate, base forming an angle of 90°, auriculate, basiscopic margin perpendicular to rhachis. Sori found on unforked veins.