Caudex short, suberect, its scales to 5 mm long, entire; stipe to 30 cm long, medium brown, glabrescent abaxially, not glossy; lamina to 35 cm long, very firm; free pinnae to 8 pairs; basal pinnae to 17 cm long (stalks 2.5 cm) bearing 2 pairs of deeply lobed pinnules, the lobes obtuse, basal basiscopic pinnule 6 cm long, acroscopic 4 cm, apical part of pinna acuminate and deeply lobed like the frond apex; on largest fronds 2 or 3 pairs of suprabasal pinnae bearing a pair of pinnules; distal pinnae stalked and deeply lobed; veins slender and distinct on lower surface but not prominent; costae of pinnae minutely hairy on both surfaces near bases of pinnae only: marginal hairs on upper surface few and very small; sori large, in depressions near edges of pinna-lobes, mostly not on free veinlets; indusia large, persistent, glabrous.
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