Rhizome slender, erect, clad in linear- to ovate-attenuate dark to pale brown paleae up to 7 mm. long; stipites few, clustered. Stipes slender, pale brown, 6-20 cm. × c. 1 mm., ± clad in spreading pale to dark brown or ferruginous ovate-lanceolate paleae, c. 5 mm. long, ± hairy. Rhachis slender, grooved, paleate, with numerous rather distant pinnae. Lamina 10-40-(60) × 5-12-(15) cm., lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, thin, firm, bipinnate. Larger pinnae 3-12 × 1-2 cm., about lanceolate, acuminate, rather distant to approximate. Pinnules about ovate-lanceolate, up to 15 mm. long, deeply and sharply toothed; lower very shortly stalked, upper decurrent, sts confluent. Sori up to 8 in two rows near mid-vein, c. 0·5 mm. diam.; indusium very rarely present.

n = c. 82

Rhizomes short, erect. Stipes and rachises densely scaly; scales broad, with shiny dark brown centres and pale borders. Laminae elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 2-pinnate, 15-40 × 5-18 cm. Primary pinnae in 18-25 pairs, ± narrowly oblong, the longest 3-10 × 1-3 cm; midribs narrowly winged. Secondary pinnae in 6-15 pairs, elliptic or ovate, to 15 × 8 mm, deeply incised with apices drawn into long fine points. Sori round, lacking indusia.