Caudex short, erect, sometimes branching near its base; stipe to 60 cm long, glabrous and glossy above its base, usually dark, basal scales to 15 × 1.5 mm, stiff, not very dark, fringed when young; lamina to 60 cm long consisting of a rather shal-lowly trilobed apex and 1-4 pairs of pinnae, thin, drying brownish; apical lamina to 25 cm long, its base not decurrent, 1 or more buds present on the upper surface of its costa near bases of main veins; pinnae more broadly rounded at their bases on the basiscopic than acroscopic side, middle ones commonly 15-18x5-6cm, basal pinnae with stalks to 2 cm long and a broad basiscopic lobe; main veins 10-15 mm apart along costae of pinnae, at 45°, little upcurved, cross-veins not regular, smaller veins distinct but not prominent, forming areoles containing copious branched free veinlets; lower surface glabrous, upper surface of costae densely short-hairy; sori small, mostly at ends of veinlets in areoles, nearly round but on some fronds variously a little elongate; indusia small, reniform, sometimes lacking.
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