Rhizome erect, with tufted fronds and with lanceolate to narrowly ovate dark-brown slightly fimbriate acute rhizome-scales up to 4 mm. long with broad paler borders. Frond erect to arching, not proliferous, thinly to thickly coriaceous. Stipe pale brown to greyish-green when dry (green when fresh), up to 16 cm. long, glabrous except for scattered minute ovate acuminate dark-brown scales, becoming glabrous with age. Lamina up to 15 x 7.5 cm., deeply pinnatifid to 2-pinnatifid, narrowly oblong-acute in outline with basal pinnae hardly or not reduced, pinnate, apex acute; pinnae up to 5 x 1.2 cm., up to 15 pairs, petiolate, oblong attenuate or obtuse, deeply pinnatifid into mostly linear or very narrowly oblong-obtuse segments c. 1 mm. wide but with a 2–9 lobed acroscopic basal segment, or with some of the lower segments occasionally 2-fid, glabrous on both surfaces except for occasional minute dark narrowly ovate scales dorsally. Rhachis pale-brown when dry with occasional minute dark-brown ovate-lanceolate scales. Sori 2 mm. long, 1 per pinna lobe, linear, borne 1/2 way along the length of the lobe; indusium very narrowly oblong, membranous, entire.