Terrestrial; rhizome to 13 cm high, 2 cm in diameter, with dark brown lanceolate scales 5–10≈1 mm, with pale borders. Fronds in tufts of 4–9, to 1.8 m long; stipe pale brown, 70–72 cm long, 5 mm in diameter at base, adaxially grooved, basal 3–5 cm covered in scales similar to those of rhizome; lamina membranous to coriaceous, dark green, deltoid-pentagonal, 45–100≈30–80 cm, 3-pinnatifid; pinnae in 4–6 pairs, basal pinna pair the longest and stalked, terminal segment pinnatifid; pinnules to 18 cm long, the basal the largest, divided in up to 10 secondary pinnules; ultimate segments oblong, falcate, with crenate margins; veins and veinlets anastomosing; free included veinlets in areoles not frequent, absent along the rachis and rare in the triangular areoles between rachis and costa; small glandular hairs ± 0.5 mm long thinly scattered on axes from rachis to costa, denser at pinna base and pinna margins where it is decurrent between pinna segments, on sinus margin and adaxially, above sinus, on rachis, pinna costa and costa, resembling velvet; minute scales sometimes present in central areoles; glabrous when mature. Gemmae sometimes present at pinnae bases or along pinnae costa. Sori inframarginal to median, in up to 4 pairs per segment, 0.5–2(–3) mm in diameter; indusium small, reniform, minutely ciliate. Spores pale brown, monolete, perispore winged, cristate. Fig. 1: 8–11 & Fig. 2: 5.
