Rhizome short-decumbent or erect, up to 90 mm long, up to 7 mm in diam., with stipe bases and greyish black scales, ovate, up to 2.2 x 1.2 mm, crenulate. Fronds up to 12 per plant, caespitose, suberect to arching, up to 1.1 m long. Stipe firm, dark brown to black, up to 250 mm long, up to 3.4 mm in diam., sparsely set with greyish black, ovate to lanceolate scales, up to 4 x 1 mm, crenulate. Lamina 1-pinnate, narrowly elliptic, up to 800 x 100 mm, with up to 58 closely spaced pinna pairs, often with a scaled proliferous bud adaxially near lamina apex. Pinnae herbaceous, sessile, inequilaterally narrowly trullate to lanceolate, variously pinnatifid into oblong to narrow-cuneate segments, adaxially hirsute along costa and veins, abaxially with ovate to filiform clathrate scales similar to those along rachis. Sori linear, up to 4 mm long, up to 10 pairs per pinna. Indusium entire, up to 1 mm wide.
Perennial with suberect rhizome. Fronds to 1.1 m, arching, proliferous on rachis near lamina apex, stipe with scales and short hairs, lamina herbaceous, narrowly elliptic, 1-pinnate to 2-pinnatifid, pinnae to 6.5 cm long, with up to 55 pinna pairs, inaequilaterally narrowly trullate to lanceolate, to 5.3 cm long, pinnatifid into linear lobes, upper surface densely hirsute along costa, sparsely hirsute along veins, lower surface with scales and few-celled hairs along the costa, veins and often also between veins, rachis with short hairs. Sori linear, indusium entire, to 4 mm long.
Rhizome ascending, set with dark brown rhizome scales. Fronds gemmiferous. Proliferating bud borne on rhachis on or below terminal segment. Rhachis pubescent below. Lamina up to 650 x 130 mm. Pinnae shallowly pinnatifid; lobes usually 2-or 3-fid. Sori borne between costa and lobes.