Rhizome stout, forming a short stock densely beset with long dark brown hairs; stipites clustered. Stipes stout, 7-20 cm. long or more, ± bristly-hairy when young, bearing a basal tuft of linear bristly hairs, not winged. Rhachis stout, 10-15 cm. long, with scattered hairs, obscurely winged in upper part. Lamina 7-20 cm. long, 6-10 cm. wide, deltoid-triangular, 2-3-pinnate, dark green; final segs oblong, 1-2 mm. long, toothed to incised. Sori us. ∞, in sinuses of lobes of pinnules, free. Indusium up to 2 mm. long, funnel-form, sessile to shortly stalked; mouth entire or very slightly 2-lipped, hardly dilated. Receptacle stout, far exserted, up to 15 mm. or more long.