Rhizome ascending, densely covered with scales at apex. Fronds caespitose. Stipe stramineous, 15-20 cm, 1-1.2 mm in diam., base densely covered with black, linear-lanceolate scales up to 1.2 cm, upward subglabrous. Lamina deltoid-ovate, 25-30 × 18-20 cm, pinnate. Pinnae 8-10 pairs, subopposite, ovate-lanceolate, 8-10 × ca. 3 cm, base broadly cuneate, pinnatipartite, apex acuminate. Segments 7-10 pairs, deltoid-ovate, 1.5-2 cm × 8-10 mm, margin subentire, apex acute. Veins pinnate; veinlets simple or forked, visible abaxially. Lamina herbaceous, green, glabrous adaxially, with black, bullate scales on abaxial surface of pinna rachis. Sori slightly nearer to margin than to costa; indusia brown, reniform, entire.