Basal scales to 3 cm long and 1.5 mm wide, rather firm, attenuate but the tips not filiform nor dentate; pinnules of suprabasal pinnae to 11 × 2.2 cm, with stalks 2 mm long, rather abruptly acuminate, lobed 3/4 towards costae, lobes well spaced, minutely dentate distally (about as in P. conjugata); sinus-teeth broadly triangular; veins forming costal areoles with no additional ones below sinuses, costular areoles usually 1 pair only; red glands on costules and veins abundant; sori indusiate, indusia thin.