Rhizome c. 5 mm in diameter, set with linear-lanceolate, fimbriate, clathrate, black to dark brown rhizome-scales c. 3 mm long with a paler margin. Fronds spaced 5-30 mm apart, erect, coriaceous; stipe pale brown, up to 150 mm long; lamina oblong to broadly lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, rarely simple, deeply pinnatifid almost to midrib into linear, weakly undulate and shallowly crenate lobes up to 140 x 10 mm, acute to rounded apically and with de-current bases; midrib prominent below. Sori round, up to 2 mm in diameter, set in a line on either side of costa and sunken into lamina.
Perennial with short rhizome. Fronds spaced, erect, coriaceous, stipe sparsely scaled, lamina oblong to lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid almost to midrib into linear, shallowly crenate lobes. Sori round, to 2 mm diam., in a single line on either side of the costa.