Rhizome slender, with scattered pale to reddish brown hairs, especially when young; stipites rather distant to close-set. Stipes very slender, 3-5 cm. or more long, not winged, with scattered hairs, becoming glab. Rhachis slender, winged in upper portion, densely clad in stellate hairs. Lamina 5-20 cm. long, us. densely clad in brownish stellate hairs, sts rather sparsely so; narrow ovate to oblong, acute to acuminate; 2-3-pinnatifid; segs close-set, narrow-oblong, retuse or obtuse. Sori us. ∞, immersed. Indusium suborbicular, c. 1 mm. long, 2-valved almost to base; valves rounded, bearded with stellate hairs. Receptacle not exserted.

n = 36