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Terrestrial or lithophytic; rhizome suberect, to 13 cm long and 1 cm in diameter, rarely branched, with dense roots and brown linear paleae to 12≈1 mm, ending in acicular cell. Fronds tufted, 8–12 in number, to 1 m long; stipe brown near base, straw-coloured higher up, 35–45 cm long, 5 mm in diameter, with adaxial groove, sparsely to densely paleate, paleae ovate, 13–23≈7–9 mm with fimbriate margin and darker central part; lamina herbaceous, pale to dark green, narrowly elliptic in outline, (33–)47–63≈8–16 cm, 2-pinnate; rachis straw-coloured, densely paleate with paleae similar to but smaller than those on stipe, to 9≈3 mm; pinnae up to 29 on each side of the rachis, the lowermost reduced and deflexed, the largest to 9≈2 cm; pinnules up to 12 free pairs per pinna, to 12 mm long, long-aristate; venation clear, costa with dense narrowly ovate to triangular scales with long outgrowths on lower margins. Sori (sub-)terminal on abbreviated vein branches, circular, ± 1 mm in diameter; sporangium with 11–24 indurated annulus cells; indusium persistent, straw-coloured, peltate, circular, repand to erose with small, central processes, maximum radial length 1.1 mm. Spores brown, smooth or tuberculate, spiculate. Fig. 10: 9–10 & Fig. 11: 1–3.