Plants 15-25(-30) cm tall. Rhizome erect, short, apex densely scaly; scales blackish brown, narrowly triangular or ovate, margins denticulate. Fronds caespitose, simple; stipe stramineous, very short or absent, 0.4-2.5 cm; lamina lanceolate, 15-25 × (1.5-)1.9-2.5(-3.9) cm, usually ca. 10 × longer than wide, base gradually decurrent and forming narrow wing on stipe, margin entire or sinuate in basal part, upward irregularly sinuate-crenate, and often notched, apex acuminate or acute. Midrib stramineous, not distinctly raised abaxially, adaxially raised; veins obscure, 1-forked. Fronds fleshy, grayish green when dry, with minute brown triangular to stellate scales, subglabrous when old. Sori brown, linear, 5-9(-11) mm, starting close to midrib at an angle of (30°-)45°-50°(-65°), and up to 2/3 width of lamina; indusia gray to yellowish brown, linear, entire, opening toward midrib, persistent. Spores with many perforations in outer subechinate-lophate perispore.
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