Plants 60-70 cm tall. Rhizome creeping, densely clothed with linear-lanceolate, entire, bright scales. Fronds approximate, dimorphic; stipe of sterile frond stramineous, 20-30 cm, sparsely clothed with linear and linear-lanceolate, brown scales; lamina ovate, 30-40 cm, widest (ca. 22 cm wide) at base, bipinnatipartite, base cordate, apex acuminate; pinnae 10-12 pairs, remote, basal pair deltoid-lanceolate, 10-12 × 3-4 cm, shortly stalked, apex acuminate; pinnules (segments) 10-12 pairs, oblique, oblong or subfalcate, margin incised-serrate, apex obtuse, basiscopic pinnules longer than acroscopic ones, base of basiscopic side undeveloped; pinnae above second pair lanceolate, base cordate, shortly stalked, apex acuminate, basiscopic pinnules similar to acroscopic ones. Lamina herbaceous; rachis and costa subglabrous, with sparse, linear, brown scales; veins pinnate, not forked, obscure adaxially, distinct abaxially. Stipe of fertile frond stramineous, base clothed with linear-lanceolate, brown scales, glabrous upward. Fertile lamina oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate, base slightly narrowed or not, apex acuminate; pinnae 10-12 pairs, ca. 1 cm apart, barred, ca. 1.5 cm × 2-3 mm, stalked, apex obtuse. Sori in 2 regular rows on each pinnule (segment); indusia ferruginous, orbicular-reniform, entire.
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A fern. It grows on land. The stalks are tufted. They have scales. The fronds are 25-80 cm long with leaflets or pinnae along the stalk. The spore bodies are kidney shaped. They occur near the middle on either side of the small veins.
A tropical plant. It grows in Nepal up to about 1600-3,000 m altitude. In southern China it grows between 1,200-1,600 m above sea level.
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