Rhizome much branched, hollow, 2-3 cm thick, glaucous, waxy, glabrous except for a scattering of minute scales at the apex. Phyllopods solid, prominent, 1-1.5 cm high. Fronds monomorphic to slightly (internally) dimorphic, stalked, deeply pinnatifid; stipe 10-25 cm long, 1-2 mm thick, lamina 30-70 by 10-20 cm, not decurrent on the stipe, mid green above, glaucous below, chartaceous. Pinnae perpendicular to the rachis, 0.7-1.1 cm, fertile ones slightly narrowed; apex acute to rounded. Venation with recurrent freely branching included veinlets. Sori on marginal teeth, immersed in somewhat reflexed, laterally flattened cup-shaped involucres, to 24 on each pinna. Sporangia c. 0.33 mm long, spores 64.
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