Fronds large, strongly erect but not greatly elongate nor high-climbing; primary rachis-branches few times equally forked; ultimate branches commonly 40 cm long and 12 cm wide, accessory branches at penultimate forks commonly 20-30 cm long and 7-10 cm wide; costules 5-7 mm apart; lamina-segments 3½-4.5 mm wide above the base, texture firm, lower surface glaucous, usually quite glabrous apart from minute simple hairs on the veins, often pinkish on costae and lower parts of costules; veins slender, slightly prominent on lower surface but not on upper; stipular leaflets to 3 cm long at bases of primary branches; spores monolete.