Rootstock creeping, densely scaly ; stalks two to six inches long ; fronds as long as the stalks, ovate in outline, sub-coriaceous, slightly scaly above, clothed j beneath with ovate reticulated ciliate scales, pinnatifid into rather ? few oblong or oblong-spatulate entire segments separated by broad rounded sinuses; veinlets anastomosing in a single series of large areoles, each areole enclosing a sorus, outer veinlets free.