Epiphytic or on rocks. Rhizome up to 3(–5) mm in diameter when dried, widely creeping, frequently producing short lateral axes with fronds variously spaced and with brown peltate broadly ovate, obtuse, entire rhizome-scales up to 1.5 mm long, darker around the point of attachment. Frond erect, seldom arching, firmly herbaceous to thinly coriaceous; stipe articulated in the upper half, stramineous, pale to dark brown, up to 26 cm long, matt, glabrous to shortly ferruginous pubescent; lamina up to 40 cm long, 17 cm wide, deeply 2-pinnatifid, lanceolate-acute to -attenuate in outline; basal pinnae somewhat or not reduced; pinnae up to 9.5 cm long, 1.8 cm wide, very narrowly oblong-attenuate, very broadly cuneate at the base, deeply pinnatifid into narrowly oblong, obtuse, entire lobes, thinly pubescent on both sides or ± glabrous above save for costa; lobes up to 9 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, nearly always with submarginal white dots above (hydathodes with lime secretion); rhachis stramineous to dark brown, densely pubescent with minute white hairs. Sori ± 1 mm in diameter, up to 9 per lobe, circular, borne about halfway between the costules and the margin; indusium 0.6 mm in diameter, glabrous, entire.