Rhizome short, set with dense, concolorous ferrugineous, entire rhizome-scales c. 10 mm long. Fronds herbaceous; stipe stramineous, up to 120 mm long; lamina ovate-deltate, up to 330 x 300 mm, 4-pinnatifid; pinnae oblong acute towards apex, unequally deltate-ovate basally, up to 220 mm long; pinnules of upper pinnae and basiscopic pinnule segments of basal pinnae up to 20 x 9 mm, deeply pinnatifid into oblong obtuse, crenate lobes, pilose with unicellular hairs on both surfaces; rhachis stramineous, pilose. Sori up to 12 per pinnule (or pinnule segment of basal pinna), 1-1.5 mm in diameter; indusium reniform, pilose with straight white unicellular hairs.
Rhizome creeping, densely set with lanceolate-acuminate rhizome scales. Indusia reniform, densely pilose with long white unicellular hairs. Upper surface of costae pilose with unicellular hairs. Lamina ovate-deltate, up to 330 x 300 mm. Sori up to 12 per pinnule.
A fern with a creeping rhizome. It has a dense covering of bright brown scales. These are narrow and pointed. The stipe is 25 cm long. It is grooved and naked except at the base. The blade is delta shaped.