Caudex short, erect; stipe to 35 cm long, slightly castaneous, its basal scales 10 mm long, barely 1 mm wide, firm with filiform tips; lamina c. 30 cm long; pinnae 3 pairs stalked, 2 pairs sessile or adnate; basal pinnae 15 cm long with 2 pairs of stalked pinnules, basal basiscopic ones 7 cm long with basal lobe almost free; lobes of all pinnae falcate, acute, the margins of sterile ones acutely dentate; veins as in T. dissecta; very short hairs present on upper surface of rachis and near bases of pinna-rachises, none between veins on the upper surface; sori terminal on acroscopic branches of veins in pinna-lobes; indusia firm, dark, glabrous.
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