Caudex short, erect, bearing a tuft of many stipes; stipe c. 20 cm long, dull castaneous, minutely hairy on the abaxial surface; basal scales to 8 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, dark with paler margins; lamina c. 20 cm long, apex very deeply trilobed or simple with a pair of pinnae close below it; pinnae 2 or 3 pairs, upper ones 10 × 2 cm, almost sessile, entire, base rather narrowly cuneate, apex acuminate; basal pinnae to 12 × 2 cm with a basiscopic lobe 8 × 1.5 cm; main veins in pinnae 5 mm apart along the costa, at 45°, red-brown and prominent on the lower surface, cross-veins similar with 2 irregular series of areoles between them; lower surface of costae and veins bearing sparse minute hairs, upper surface of costae closely covered with short hairs, no other hairs present; sori rather irregularly spaced, often confluent or elongate to form lines parallel to the main veins (not to costae); indusia very small and thin, not covering sori.
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