Rhizomes erect, short, apex hairy; hairs long, light brown. Common stipes stramineous to light brown, 12-30 cm, 3-6 mm in diam., fleshy, woolly-hairy; hairs sparse, whitish, long. Sterile lamina 3-or 4-pinnate, deltoid to subpentagonal, 14-45 × 10-38 cm, thin and herbaceous, degree of pubescence variable; pinnae 5-8 pairs, alternate, long stalked, 2-6 cm apart, lowest pair largest, 7-20 × 5-10 cm; pinnules 6-10 pairs, alternate, stalked, basiscopic pinnules larger than acroscopic ones, basal pinnule largest; ultimate lobes acute or obtuse; veins free, simple or forked. Sporophore with stalk 2-10 cm, hairy, arising at various points between lowest two pairs of pinnae of sterile lamina, usually close to base of second lowest pinnae; spikes 2-or 3-pinnate, paniculate, 7-12 × 5-7 cm, hairy. Spores yellowish, surface reticulate, finely striate on ridges. 2n = 180, 270, 360.
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A fern which grows on land. It has a stout rhizome. The fern is fleshy. It is covered with hair like scales. The fronds are solitary and 12-35 cm long. They are delta shaped. The stipes are about 30 cm long and like fibres. The fertile branch arises from the middle of the sterile portion. It is divided 3 times. The sporangia are yellow. They occur in two rows.
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