Rhizome up to 4 mm in diameter, set with dark brown, lanceolate, attenuate, entire rhizome-scales up to 6 x 1 mm. Fronds clustered, arching, firmly herbaceous; stipe stramineous to pale brown, fairly densely set with scales, becoming subglabrous with age; sterile lamina very narrowly oblong to very narrowly elliptic (or narrowly elliptic in small fronds), acuminate, set mainly along margin and midrib with dark brown scales c. 1.5 mm long (smaller along margin) and with substellate scales on lamina surface, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, abruptly decrescent or not; midrib shallowly sulcate above, convex below; fertile lamina narrowly oblong, acute, up to 125 x 30 mm, narrowly ovate in small fronds, base broadly cuneate, hardly decurrent.
Rhizome short, decumbent to erect, up to 6 mm in diam., scaled. Fronds erect to arching, up to 250 mm long. Stipe variously scaled. Lamina simple, herbaceous, sterile broad to narrow-lanceolate or linear-acuminate, up to 210 x 5 mm, abaxially with dark brown subulate scales along the midrib and margins.
Rhizome up to 4 mm in diameter, set with dark brown rhizome scales. Sterile lamina set with scales longer than 1.5 mm, only stellate scales present, narrowly oblong to very narrowly elliptic, acute, base shortly decurrent.