Basal scales of stipe not seen; lamina to 30 cm long, firm but veins distinct on lower surface; free pinnae 4 pairs and several pairs adnate, the costules of basal lobes of distal pinnae arising from junction of pinna-midrib with rachis; basal pinnae to 15 cm long, bearing 2 pairs of free pinnules, distal parts of pinnae shaped like the frond-apex; basal basiscopic pinnules of basal pinnae to 6.5 × 3 cm with acute apex, bearing 1 pair of almost free tertiary leaflets, the largest 18 × 10 mm lobed to its costa near its base, the lobes entire (or the basal ones with sinuous margin) with broadly rounded apices; basal acroscopic pinnules of basal pinnae 3.7 × 2 cm; pinnules or lobes of second, third and fourth pairs of pinnae all deeply lobed and with broadly obtuse apices; lower surface of main rachis and pinna-rachises bearing minute hairs and many very narrow scales 2-3 mm long which are not stiffly spreading, their margins inflexed and their widened bases formed by isodiametric cells; lower surface of costae of pinnules bearing sparse very short hairs of 2 or 3 cells and apparently short slender appressed red glands (not clearly seen); hairs on upper surface of costae 0.5 mm long, thick; no hairs nor glands seen between veins on upper surface; sori about medial on simple veinlets in pinnule-lobes or near the bases of one or both branches of forked veinlets; indusia very small, bearing a few slender glands which may be red.
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