Rhizome long-creeping, up to 5 mm in diam., with brown to dark brown, subulate to lanceolate-attenuate scales, up to 6 mm long. Fronds spaced up to 20 mm apart, erect or arching. Stipe dark brown abaxially, green adaxially, sulcate, up to 235 mm long, glabrous or with brown hair-like scales. Lamina 2-or 3-pinnate, ovate-triangular, up to 500 x 225 mm, with 8-16 alternate pairs, lowest pinna pair not or hardly reduced. Pinnae petiolate, acute to acuminate, up to 110 x 80 mm, with up to 14 alternate pinnules. Pinnules short-petiolate, semi-circular, rhomboid or trapezoid, with rounded or triangular lobes with obtuse to acute dentate apices, up to 14 x 12 mm. Sori linear, up to 5 mm long. Indusium linear, membranous, entire.
Rhizome creeping, set with dark brown rhizome scales. Venation flabellate. Fronds not gemmiferous, widely spaced on rhizome. Lamina subovate, up to 370 x 180 mm, 2-or 3-pinnate. Pinnae subdivided into as many as 16 cuneate, rounded trapeziform pinnules.