Stipe 12-20 cm long, dark glossy, scales 2-3 x 1mm. Lamina to 25 cm long; pinnae 20 pairs; lowest pinnae deflexed and reduced, their basal lobes free and dentate. Largest pinnae 4.0 x 1.3 cm, short acuminate, with stalks hardly long; lobes oblique, crenulate; costules 3-4 mm apart; veins 3-5 pairs; lower surface of rachis castaneous, glabrous, all other lower surfaces bearing scattered very small capitate hairs, some linear scales on costae; upper surface hairy on edges of groove of rachis and costae, few hairs on costules. Sori near costules, sometimes asymmetric; indusia small with some capitate hairs.
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