Rhizome widely creeping, c. 2 mm in diameter, set with lanceolate-acuminate, brown rhizome-scales c. 3 mm long with a dark central stripe and pale laciniate-lacerate margins. Fronds spaced up to 25 mm apart, coriaceous, stipitate; stipe grey brown at maturity, up to 80 mm long, set with occasional small pale, circular to lanceolate scales with dark centre; lamina narrowly elliptic, up to 200 x 17 mm, entire, upper surface glabrous, lower surface set with numerous pale, circular to lanceolate, minutely erose-lacerate scales less than 1 mm in diameter with dark centres. Sori oval, up to 4 mm in diameter, in a line on either side of midrib in upper half of lamina.
Rhizome widely creeping, ± 2 mm in diameter, set with lanceolate-acuminate rhizome scales. Fronds simple. Soral paraphyses peltate, conspicuous in young sori. Undersurface of frond with numerous lacerate, peltate scales. Lamina narrowly elliptic, up to 200 x 17 mm. Sori oval, in upper half of lamina.
Perennial with widely spreading rhizome. Fronds spaced, firmly herbaceous to coriaceous, stipe sparsely scaled, lamina simple, entire, narrowly elliptic, to 20 cm long, minutely lacerate-scaled beneath. Null Sori oval, to 4 mm diam.