Rhizomes short, erect or ascending, densely clothed with red-brown, narrowly lanceolate scales at apex and stipe bases. Fronds caespitose; fertile fronds ca. 50 cm; stipe dull brown at base, upward brownish stramineous, 14-16 cm, ca. 2 mm in diam. at base, upward glabrate; lamina pinnate-pinnatifid, lanceolate, 30-35 cm, ca. 6 cm wide at middle, gradually narrowed toward base, acuminate at apex; pinnae ca. 25 pairs, alternate, ascending, sessile, 4 or 5 lower pairs of pinnae gradually shortened, inclined, basal pinnae ca. 1 cm; middle pinnae falcate-lanceolate, 3-4 × 1.2-1.8 cm at base, base subtruncate, slightly auriculate on acroscopic side, pinnatipartite nearly to costae, apex acuminate; segments ca. 10 pairs, slightly ascending, approximate, oblong-lanceolate, 7-8 × ca. 2 mm, base decurrent to narrow costal wing, with up to 4 or 5 pairs of lobes or dentate, apex acute. Veins visible on both surfaces, pinnate in pinnules, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, very oblique, simple or forked. Lamina herbaceous when dried, brown, glabrate on both surfaces; rachis and costae brown-stramineous abaxially, with dense pale, short glandular hairs. Sori orbicular, medial, 4 or 5 pairs per pinnule; indusia pale, large, broadly ovate, membranous, suberose at margin, persistent. Perispore surface with prominent folds.
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