Rhizome short, creeping, with linear-lanceolate scales, colourless to deep shiny chestnut with pale edges, 4–8 mm long, remotely serrate near base. Fronds tufted, 10–40 cm long; stipe slender, dark purple, with scales at base, 6–14 cm long; lamina oblong to narrowly triangular in outline, 6–10 cm long, 5–6 cm wide, 2–3-pinnate with 4–6 pairs of pinnae, the upper pair of pinnae and terminal pinna often entire; lower ones with 1–4 pairs of pinnules; pinnae oblong in outline, 2–4 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide; rhachis simply pilose; pinnules articulated, subsessile to shortly stipitate, oblong-elliptic, 0.35–2.4 cm long, 0.15–1.2 cm wide, entire, green above and with dense white to brown branched hairs, pale beneath with a waxy coating of scales bearing branched hairs consisting of a short foot and spreading branches from the apex, the whole forming a dense white to brown tomentum covering the surface. Sori more or less continuous, completely obscured by hairs; indusium about 0.3 mm wide, slightly crenulate at the margins, micro-rugulose.