Basal stipe-scales light brown, narrow, hair-pointed; upper ones 4-5 mm long with inflexed margins and basal isodiametric cells; lamina to 45 cm long; free pinnae to 9 pairs, narrowly acuminate; basal pinnae to 16 cm long, bearing 4 pairs of pinnules, the lowest stipitulate; basal basiscopic pinnule 7 × 2.8 cm, acuminate, deeply lobed, basal lobe almost free, 19 × 7 mm, deeply lobulate, basal acroscopic pinnule 2.5 × 0.9 cm, obtuse; pinnules of suprabasal pinnae obtuse, deeply lobed, costules of lobes 3.5 mm apart; sori about medial in lobes of pinnules; indusia very small, bearing slender glands, glands also present on stalks of sporangia.
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