Rhizome sub-erect to shortly creeping, relatively thick, 1–1.5 mm diam., covered with coarse, shiny, red-brown hairs. Fronds tufted or close together, erect, 4–20 cm long, with tiered pinnae. Stipe slender, relatively short, not winged; rachis very narrowly winged. Lamina 2–3-pinnate, finely dissected, triangular to ovate-linear, dark green; ultimate segments very narrow, c. 1 mm wide; margin entire. Sori numerous, immersed in lamina, terminal on lateral segments of pinnae; indusium conical, 1–3 mm long; receptacle relatively robust, projecting 2–10 mm out from indusium at maturity.
GipP, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HFE. A rare fern of rainforests in far East Gippsland, the Beenak area and Wilsons Promontory. It grows on the trunks of tree-ferns, particularly Cyathea australis.
