Rhizome short-creeping or suberect, clothed with long stiff brown hairs. Fronds clustered, few, weak, linear-terete, subterete when dry, 6–20 cm long, c. 0.5 mm diam., not constricted markedly below sporogenous lobes; surface rough due to scattered appressed short thick hairs. Sporogenous lobes (2–) 3 (–5), linear, tufted at apex, 7–15 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide. Sporangia in 2 rows, mixed with long, pale brown hairs.
In Qld, it occurs as an epiphyte among bryophytes on logs and on tree bases, especially near streams.