Rhizome stout, ± clad in red-brown bristly hairs; stipites us. rather distant. Stipes stout, 5-15 cm. long, densely clad in bristly hairs, glabrate in age, not winged. Rhachis winged in upper part, ± bristly-hairy. Lamina 5-30 cm. long, ovate-deltoid to narrow-oblong, 4-pinna-tifid, dark green; primary pinnae up to 8 cm. long; final segs linear, obtuse. Sori us. ∞, in upper part of lamina, slightly immersed. Indusium 1-1·5 mm. long, ovate to suborbicular, 2-valved to base; valves us. toothed. Receptacles not or very slightly exserted.