Rhizome up to 3 mm in diameter, set with dark brown, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire rhizome-scales c. 35 mm long. Fronds spaced c. 30 mm apart, simple, stipitate, firmly mem-branous; stipe pale green, up to 120 mm long, glabrous except for a few dark brown scales basally; lamina elliptic, up to 370 x 80 mm, entire to weakly undulate, acuminate, decurrent basally, midrib pale, prominent below; vena-tion obscure. Sori borne between the midrib and halfway to the margin, c. 5(-25) mm in dia-meter.