Stipe 10-15 cm long, dark, glossy, sparsely hairy; scales 2-3 x 0.8 mm, dark, rigid. Lamina to 25 cm long; pinnae 15-18 pairs; basal pinnae not or little reduced, a little narrowed at base, basal acroscopic lobe almost free, dentate, not elongate. Suprabasal pinnae to 4.5x1.2 cm, short-acuminate; lobes oblique, basal ones strongly dentate, rest ± toothed at ends of veins; costules 2.5-3 mm apart; veins 5-6 pairs; lower surface of rachis and costae with short spreading acicular hairs, glands on costae, costules and veins, a few dark narrow scales on costae; upper surface of costules and veins with scattered hairs, no glands nor hairs between veins. Sori supramedial; indusia glabrous.