Caudex short, erect, its apex covered with narrow shortly hair-pointed scales 5 mm long; stipe atrocastaneous, minutely hairy, of sterile fronds to 23 cm long, of fertile to 42 cm; sterile lamina very firm, rather narrowly ovate, acute, to 14.5 cm long, its base cordate, with a short acute lobe on each side near the base, width above the lobes 9.5 cm; fertile lamina similar in shape but somewhat smaller; lower surface of costae and main veins sparsely minutely hairy, between veins glabrous; upper surface of costae densely short-hairy, fewer hairs on main veins; sori small, abundant, irregularly scattered, exindusiate, often on veinlets in areoles but also on veins surrounding areoles, often ± elongate or coalescent.
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