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Caudex short-creeping with very closely placed stipes; scales thin, to c. 10 × 1 mm, persistent; stipe to 50 cm long, light castaneous, bearing slender terete hairs to 0.5 mm long; lamina to 75 cm long and wide but fronds 20 cm long, sometimes fertile; basal pinnae to 30 cm long (including stalk 3.5 cm), basal basiscopic pinnules to 15 × 8 cm bearing tertiary leaflets to 4 × 1.5 cm lobed almost to their costae, the lobes crenate, the lowest tertiary leaflets free, the rest decurrent or joined by a narrow wing, basal acroscopic pinnules to 10 × 5 cm bearing tertiary leaflets to 2.5 × 1.2 cm; upper pinnae catadromous; rachis bearing terete hairs 0.5 mm long both sides, those on the abaxial side slender, spreading, on adaxial side antrorse, thicker, sometimes longer; lower surface of leaflets bearing short erect hairs on and between veins, also some almost spherical red glands, upper surface with fewer hairs; sori at or near ends of veins; indusia small, bearing red spherical glands.
Rhizome short-to medium-creeping, 10-14 mm thick, scaly towards the apex; scales 2-12 mm long, 0.3-1.5 mm wide, dark brown. Fronds moderately crowded. Stipe 20-75 cm long, rough, scaly and hairy towards the base. Lamina 4-pinnate, pentagonal, 25-70 cm long, 20-60 cm broad, pale green, dull, thin, with soft white hairs on both surfaces; rachises densely hairy and with scattered scales. Ultimate segments oblong; margins irregularly toothed; apex obtuse to acute. Sori submarginal; indusium dark brown to black, with coloured glands on the margins and surface.
