Rhizomes short, stout, erect, clothed with brown, lanceolate scales at apex and stipe bases. Fronds caespitose; fertile fronds 20-25 cm; stipe brown at base, upward brown-stramineous, 6-10 cm, 1-1.5 mm in diam. at base, upward with sparse small scales and brownish short glandular hairs; lamina pinnate, lanceolate, 14-17 × 3-4 cm at middle, base not narrowed, apex acuminate, slightly caudate; pinnae 13-15 pairs, alternate, ascending, with stalk 1-1.5 mm, basal 1 or 2 pairs of pinnae falcate-oblong, similar to upper pinnae; middle pinnae 2-2.5 cm × 6-8 mm, apex shortly acute and shortly toothed, base markedly inequilateral, auriculate on acroscopic side, parallel to rachis, auricles 6-7 × ca. 3 mm, basiscopic side of pinnae cuneate, cut into triangular teeth at margin, apex rounded and with few small teeth. Veins visible adaxially, clearly visible abaxially, pinnate or 2-or 3-forked on auricles or segments, simple. Lamina papery when dried, glabrate, brown adaxially, yellow-green abaxially; rachis brown-stramineous, with sparse brownish small scales and short glandular hairs. Sori suborbicular, inframedial on acroscopic veins, 1-3 sori per segment, often 2 or 3 pairs in auriculate lobes; indusia dark brown, J-shaped or horseshoe-shaped, membranous, erose at margin, persistent. Perispore surface with prominent folds.
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