Caudex short-creeping; stipe 27 cm long, glabrous distally, its base thickened, its basal scales to 7 × 1.5 mm, thin, light castaneous; lamina firm, 40 cm long, 20 cm wide; pinnae 4 pairs below an apical lamina 15 cm long which is lobed to 10 mm from its axis, the basal lobes 8x2 cm, lobulate; basal pinnae 18 cm long (stalk 1.5 cm) bearing one pair of pinnules; basiscopic pinnule 8 cm long, deeply lobed with crenulate lobes, acroscopic pinnule 5.5 cm long; next pinna 16 cm long with a pair of pinnules 4.5 cm long; veins forming costal areoles which have frequent free (sometimes forked) included veinlets, some free included veinlets also in costular and other areoles; lower surface of pinna-midribs and costules of lobes bearing slender pale hairs to 0.3 mm long, sparse shorter hairs on veins; upper surface densely hairy on pinna-midribs, no hairs present between veins except a few near sinuses between lobes; sori mostly on short free veins in areoles, in one row on each side of costules of smaller pinna-lobes, more irregular on larger lobes; indusia rather large, thin, with many slender short hairs on the upper surface.
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