Caudex short, suberect; stipe commonly 15-20 cm long (to 30 cm), very dark, hairless, densely scaly in basal 4 cm, basal scales very dark, less than 1 mm wide, to c. 12 mm long, upper ones paler, all with thinner entire margins; lamina to 35 cm long with up to 6 pairs of pinnae, very firm, apex pinna-like or joined to uppermost pinna; middle pinnae 10-12 × 2-3 cm, short-stalked, short-acuminate, margins entire to irregularly repand, base rounded to broadly cuneate; basal pinnae not or little longer than the next pair, with a large acute basiscopic lobe, the lobe on largest fronds sometimes almost free, the acroscopic base rounded or in largest fronds forming an obtuse almost free lobe 8x4 mm; all surfaces almost glabrous, minute hairs sometimes present on lower surface of veins and near base of upper surface of costae; lateral veins of pinnae flexuous, prominent on the lower surface, smaller veins usually also prominent; sori on short veinlets in areoles, in one row on each side of lateral veins, not impressed; indusia firm, about circular, attached along a line from centre to base, bearing a few minute hairs.
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