Plants 23-45 cm tall. Rhizome erect, short, densely scaly; scales dark brown, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, dentate. Fronds caespitose; stipe dark brown, 8-12 cm, with lanceolate, dark brown scales; lamina deltoid-lanceolate, 16-26 × ca. 10 cm, widest at middle, bipinnatipartite, slightly narrowed downward, base truncate, apex acuminate; pinnae 12-16 pairs, alternate, lower several pairs remote, middle pinnae 3.5-4 × ca. 1.5 cm; segments ca. 8 pairs, approximate, oblong, apex minutely dentate. Lamina: rachis with lanceolate, brown or dark brown scales. Sori in 1 row on each side of costa; indusia orbicular-reniform, with irregular teeth, deciduous.