Stipe 15 cm long, dark, densely covered with hairs long and thin scales 3x1.5 mm. Lamina to 40 cm long; pinnae 18-20 pairs; lowest pinnae a little reduced and narrowed to base. Suprabasal pinnae to 7x1.5 cm, sessile, short-acuminate; lobes oblong, serrate-crenate, basal lobes most strongly so; costules to apart; veins 6-7 pairs; rachis beneath bearing acicular hairs 1 mm long, shorter hairs on costae, sparse on costules, no glands; linear scales, sometimes dilated at base, on costules; hairs on upper surface of rachis as lower, on costae shorter, copious short hairs on surface between veins. Sori inframedial, mostly not athyrioid; indusia thin, short-hairy.