Fronds with a prominent very narrowly winged stipe 2-7 cm long. Lamina narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 4-8 cm long, 5-9 mm wide, tapered to each end, semi-erect to pendent, slightly falcate, coriaceous, dark green and shiny above, paler beneath; margins slightly irregular; apex broadly obtuse in sterile fronds, attenuate and subobtuse in fertile fronds; venation obscure, with long narrow areoles. Sori spreading for a short distance along the main veins, sparse, absent from the central band; paraphyses branched, with elongate clavate terminal cells.