Caudex short, erect or suberect; stipe light castaneous, sparsely short-hairy, its basal scales dark, firm, to 15 × 1 mm with filiform apex; lamina to 40 cm long, thin; pinnae to 4 pairs (2 pairs stalked) below a multilobed apex, its lower lobes deeply lobulate; basal pinnae to 19 cm long (stalk 1.5 cm) bearing 1 pair of stalked pinnules and 1 pair adnate; basal basiscopic pinnule 12 cm long, deeply lobed and widest at mid-length; second pair of pinnae bearing 1 pair of pinnules; veins forming costal areoles which have many free included veinlets, rarely forked, free veinlets also present in some costular areoles and (sometimes forked) in additional areoles below sinuses; lower surface rather sparsely and variably short-hairy on pinna-midribs and costae of lobes (hairs 0.2-0.3 mm long), short erect very slender hairs variably present between veins; upper surface densely hairy on costae, many short rather slender hairs usually present between veins with longer ones near sinuses between lobes; sori on outer veins of costal and costular areoles or on free veins near apex of lobes; indusia thin, reniform, variably very short-hairy.
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