Rhizome shortly creeping or ascending; rhizome scales greyish, broad, cordate at the base, margins toothed, ciliates. Frond 30-50 cm long, monomorphic. Stipe up to 1/4 - 1/3 of frond length, scaly at the base, brownish. Lamina lanceolate in outline, 2-pinnate to 3-pinnatifid, pinnatifid at the apex; pinnae 20-25 pairs, alternate, sessile, oblong or linear-oblong in outline, up to 7 x 1.5 cm; ultimate segments trapezoid-rhomboid in outline, base unequally cuneate, outer margins toothed, surface subglabrous; rhachis bearing the same large scales as the rhizome; veins forked. Sori indusiate, indusium blackish.

On rocks at base of cliff face with running water.

See African distribution.

Cameroon, Gabon.

Lithophytic.