Lamina thick, fleshy, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate. Pinnae 16-30, 7-12 × 1-2 cm., lanceolate-acuminate, often widened near obliquely cuneate base; coarsely, deeply toothed to pinnatifid; segs linear, often again toothed. Sori nearer margin, not over 1 cm. long.

Rhizome short, stout, erect, bearing red-brown, ovate, acuminate scales up to 25 × 4 mm. Stipes 15-50 cm long, green on upper surface, brown below, stout, covered in narrowly triangular scales with long filiform apices (Fig. 9P-R). Laminae lanceolate, 15-50 × 8-20 cm, dark green, thick and leathery, pinnate. Raches green, stout, prominently grooved and scaly. Pinnae 6-17 pairs, lanceolate, acuminate, often broadened and lobed towards cuneate base, deeply and regularly crenate-serrate, 5-10 × 1-2 cm, scaly on underside. Sori reaching the lamina margin in sinuses, not more than 10 mm long. Spores (38)48-53(61) mcm long, (24)28-33(42) mcm wide (5 populations), perispore slightly winged, but with few ridges (Fig. 29I-J).

n = 144