Caudex suberect or partly decumbent; stipe 20-40 cm long, dark castaneous, minutely hairy at the base, basal scales to 8 mm long, narrow, with long slender tips; lamina broadly ovate, its base strongly cordate, apex very shortly apiculate, margins broadly and shallowly lobed (rarely distinctly trilobed) to sinuous, largest seen 18 × 12 cm, smallest fertile 9x7 cm; main veins prominent on both surfaces, distinct to the margin, rather widely spaced, smaller veins forming many areoles with included veinlets; lower surface densely covered with slender erect hairs 0.5 mm or more long between veins, the hairs brownish when dried, upper surface more sparsely hairy; sori small, exindusiate, sometimes a little elongate, mostly on free veinlets in areoles.
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