Caudex short-creeping; stipe to 40 cm long, winged except near its base, basal scales 10 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, their apices filiform, narrow scales ± abundant above base of stipe; lamina to 75 cm long, consisting of an elliptic apex and up to 6 pairs of lobes connected by a wing which is 8-10 mm wide distally and 3-4 mm wide near base of frond, lobes to 30 × 6 cm, narrowed towards their bases, lower ones more widely spaced; main veins in lobes connected by rather regular outwardly curved cross-veins, the areoles between them forming a very fine reticulum; lower surface of costae short-hairy, small scales sometimes present, short hairs also present on veins and very short slender ones between veins; sori very numerous, consisting of few sporangia, exindusiate, scattered irregularly on the smaller veins.
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