Caudex slender, creeping; scales thin, narrow, to 4 mm long; fronds dimorphous. Sterile frond: stipe 3-8 cm long bearing copious slender hairs; lamina to 10 cm long, consisting of an apical section and 1 pair of pinnae; apical lamina to 7 × 4 cm, ± ovate in outline, variably lobed to a depth of 10 mm, apex rounded, base broad-cuneate; pinnae short-stalked, to 3 cm long and 2.5 cm wide at base which is widened on the basiscopic side with 2 or 3 small lobes; venation normal for sect. Tectaria but areoles few; lower surface of costae bearing many slender hairs more than 1 mm long, sparse minute hairs present on upper surface of costae and between veins near margin. Fertile frond: stipe to 18 cm long, almost glabrous; lamina to 8 cm long, variously divided, at maximum with apical section 5.5 cm long, 2.5 mm wide distally with 2 pairs of narrow lobes to 10 mm long; pinnae to 3 cm long with a narrow basiscopic lobe to 8 mm long; sporangia borne densely along the veins which form a single series of areoles.
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