Terrestrial, epiphyte or lithophyte; rhizome erect, 5–10 mm diameter, with dark brown subulate subentire concolorous rhizome scales 3–7x2 mm, hair-tipped. Frond tufted, arching, thinly coriaceous, to 60 cm long, proliferous at the base of the deeply pinnatifid lanceolate apical segment. Stipe green when fresh, greyish-green when dried, 8–20 cm long, with sparse dark brown lanceolate clathrate scales up to 2 mm long. Lamina 22–43x4.5–13 cm, 2-pinnatisect, oblong lanceolate in outline, acuminate, basal pinnae hardly reduced; pinnae variable, from shallowly incised to pinnatifid almost to costa, up to 8.5x2 cm, petiolate, lanceolate-attenuate, unequally cuneate at the base, deeply pinnatifid into linear or very narrowly oblong-acute or oblanceolate 2-fid lobes up to 8 mm long, basal acroscopic lobe broadly cuneate, shallowly incised in the upper 1/2 into 4–7 acute short lobes, glabrous except for a few substellate dark brown minute scales on the lower surface. Rachis matt-greyish-green with minute substellate to very narrowly lanceolate dark brown scales. Sori set along the veins, one per lobe, linear, 2–7 mm long, slightly curved; indusium very narrowly oblong, membranous, entire.
