Rhizome rather stout, creeping, clad when young in brown linear-attenuate paleae c.3mm.long; stipites clustered along rhizome. Stipes stout, erect to procumbent, 5-15 cm. long, densely clad in dark reddish brown, squarrose, bristly paleae mingled with hairs. Rhachis similar to stipes, bearing numerous (up to 30 or more pairs) subopp. to alt. pinnae. Lamina narrow-oblong, coriac., glab. or nearly so, 15-30-(40) × 2-4cm., dull dark green above, paler below; veins hidden. Pinnae patent, narrow-oblong to oblong to suborbicular, shortly stalked or upper sessile (rarely all sessile by widened base), rounded to truncate or subcuneate at base, obtuse but us. apiculate at apex; 1-2 cm. × 5-15 mm.; margins ± crenulate, on barren pinnae often irregularly and very shallowly lobed or subpandurate. Sori becoming coalescent in broad band near margins, not reaching base or apex of pinna, at first ± protected by reflexed margin of pinna, up to c. 1·5 cm. × 2 mm.

n = 58

n = 58