Stipe to 13 cm long, dark; scales 3 x 1 mm, thin. Lamina to 14 cm long; pinnae 10 pairs; basal pinnae largest, to 4x 1.3 cm, a little narrowed at base, basal acroscopic lobe enlarged, dentate, free. Suprabasal pinnae to 3.5x1.lern, short acuminate, lobes entire or with slight teeth at ends of distal veins; costules to 3 mm apart; veins 4 pairs; abundant very short capitate hairs on lower surface of rachis, costae, costules, veins and surface between veins; sparse short acicular and many short capitate hairs on upper surface of costae, very short acicular hairs on costules and veins, short capitate hairs between veins. Sori medial, basal ones often somewhat athyrioid; indusia bearing many capitate hairs and sometimes a few acicular ones.