Rhizome short, erect; scales dark brown, lanceolate, 6-10 mm, apex long acuminate, bristlelike, margin minutely denticulate, clathrate. Fronds clustered; stipe 2-15 cm, appressed, base covered with scales like those on rhizome, upward with sparse different sized scales, gradually glabrous; lamina thinly leathery, obovate, 2-10 × 2-8 cm, widest at middle or above, apex long acuminate or caudate, sometimes upper part irregular lacerate at margin, base attenuate along stipe; costa absent; veins abundantly reticulate. Soral lines superficial or slightly immersed, on lateral veins, netted, fertile in middle part of lamina; paraphyses club-shaped with a capitate head. Spores trilete, tetrahedral-globose, surface papillate.
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