Caudex erect or suberect; stipe to 30 cm long, base very dark, above base castaneous, minutely hairy, glabrescent; basal scales to 10 × 1.5 mm, firm with thinner margins; lamina of young plants multilobed, of mature plants to 45 cm long, texture very firm, consisting of a 5-lobed broadly triangular apex and 3 or 4 pairs of subopposite pinnae; pinnae gradually larger towards the base of the frond, short-stalked, with cordate basiscopic and rounded to cuneate acroscopic base, margins repand-sinuate, gradually narrowed to an acuminate apex; basal pinnae 18-25 cm long (stalks 15 mm), 2 cm wide on acroscopic side of costa, on basiscopic side a basal lobe 11 cm long and another 9 cm, both acuminate with repand margins, apical part of pinnae irregularly obliquely bluntly lobed on the basiscopic side; main veins to 10 mm apart along the costae, upcurved, prominent on the lower surface, cross-veins irregular with many areoles between them, smaller veins distinct but not prominent; lower surface of costae sparsely short-hairy, upper surface of rachis and costae densely covered with thicker short hairs, rest of the surface glabrous; sori rather large, in a rather uneven row on each side of main veins with a few additional ones, not impressed, mostly not on free veinlets; indusia large, thin and shrivelling, slightly reniform, minutely hairy, glabrescent.
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