Rhizomes stout, erect, often covered in dead stipe bases. Stipes 10-40 cm long, pale brown. Stipes and rachises sparsely covered with pale brown scales. Laminae elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 2-pinnate, 30-125 × 15-30 cm, dark green above, paler below. Primary pinnae in 25-50 (or more) pairs, narrowly triangular or ± oblong, tapering at apices, sessile, 8-15 × 2-3 cm. Secondary pinnae in 15-30 pairs, oblong, adnate or decurrent on pinna midrib, rounded at apices, serrate all round, to 15 × 7 mm, the secondary pinnae on the basal pair of primary pinnae ± equal in length either side of midrib. Sori round, 1-5 pairs on each secondary pinna, often confined to upper pinnae, covered by flat reniform indusia.