Stipe to 28 cm long; basal scales 8 × 0.5 mm, distal scales dark brown, to 5 mm long; lamina to 23 cm long, firm, brown-olivaceous when dried; free pinnae 2 or 3 pairs; basal pinnae to 10 cm long including a stalk of 7 mm long, basal basiscopic pinnules sessile, to 5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide at their bases, their basal lobes almost free, 18x7 mm, lobed 2/3 towards their costules, lobules 4 pairs; suprabasal pinnae sessile with 1 pair of adnate pinnules; lower surface of pinna-rachises bearing narrow scales 2-3 mm long, their margins inflexed near the base; upper surface of pinnules bearing short capitate hairs between veins; sori inframedial on veins; indusia very small, bearing slender glands.
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