Stipe 20 cm long, dark red, its base covered by tufted narrow red-brown scales 15 mm long, rest of stipe bearing dark brown rigidly spreading scales; rachis-scales like those of the stipe but gradually shorter; lamina to 34 cm long, thin; pinnae imbricate, c. 12 pairs free and several pairs adnate; basal pinnae 11.5 cm long, short-stalked, their basal basiscopic pinnules 5.2 × 1.6 cm bearing 1 pair of deeply lobed tertiary leaflets, basal acroscopic pinnules 20 × 8 mm, their basal lobes lobulate; pinnules of middle pinnae all deeply lobed, the lobes slightly oblique, their costules 3 mm apart; lower surface of pinna-rachises bearing scales 2-3 mm long, their margins inflexed and bases clathrate, upper surface bearing hairs 1 mm long; sori supra-medial on veins; indusia thin, covering young sori.
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