Rhizome c. 6 mm. in diam., short, creeping, with tufted fronds and with linear attenuate entire black rhizome-scales up to 4 mm. long with pale-brown margins. Stipe ebeneous, up to 30 cm. long, terete, glabrous except for a few hairs similar to the rhizome-scales at the base. Frond erect to arching, thinly to thickly coriaceous. Lamina up to 43 x 25 cm., narrowly ovate to ovate or triangular in outline, 2-pinnate; pinnules 0.6–5.4 x 0.4–5.2 cm., rotund to broadly hastate with 3–5 acute or obtuse points, entire, glaucous, glabrous on both surfaces, articulate at the apex of the ebeneous petiolules 0.5–26 mm. long; veins free, obscure; rhachis and secondary rhachises ebeneous, terete, glabrous. Sori forming a marginal soral line up to 1.2 mm. broad at maturity; indusium continuous, entire, membranous.