Plants ca. 60 cm tall. Rhizome not seen. Stipe stramineous, ca. 23 cm, ca. 3 mm in diam. at base, base scaly; scales yellowish brown, with brown middle or distal portions, ovate or lanceolate, margins toothed. Lamina lanceolate, 44-48 × 12-14 cm, base slightly contracted, 1-imparipinnate, apex acute; rachis glabrous. Lateral pinnae 11-14 pairs, alternate, ascendant, shortly stalked, lanceolate; middle pinnae 7-8 × 2-2.2 cm, base oblique, acroscopic margins truncate and sometimes slightly auriculate, basiscopic margins broadly cuneate, margins entire or denticulate, apex acuminate; terminal pinna lanceolate, lower portion forked, 5-6 × 2-3 cm; papery, glabrous on both surfaces; venation pinnate, indistinct on both surfaces, veinlets anastomosing to form 2 or 3 rows of areoles. Sori 2 or 3 rows on each sides of midrib; indusia margins entire or with inconspicuous small teeth.

● On rocks in forests. Fujian (Liancheng).