Plants up to 30 cm tall. Rhizome erect, short, scaly; scales brown, triangular-ovate, margins sparsely ciliate. Fronds caespitose; stipe greenish stramineous, 4-8 cm, soft, without wide wing on lateral side, base with dark brown scales or subglabrous; lamina spatulate, 18-22 × 3.5-5 cm, lower part decurrent on stipe and cuneate, margin entire, apex cuspidate to shortly caudate. Midrib (rachis) almost flat to slightly semiterete, stramineous, abaxially occasionally with small brown scales; veins obscure adaxially, faintly visible abaxially, simple or forked. Fronds leathery, after drying grayish green, subglabrous. Sori linear, 1-1.5(-2.5) cm, on acroscopic veinlets, occupying 1/2-2/3 of subtending vein; indusia grayish yellow, linear, thickly membranous, entire, persistent. Spores with lophate areolate-fenestrate perispore. Plants sexual hexaploid: 2n = 216.