Rhizome creeping, short, densely covered with hairs; hairs soft, pale brown, to 5 mm or more, multicellular. Stipes approximate, glabrous except near base; stipes of sterile fronds 15-25 cm, of fertile fronds 15-25 cm or longer. Sterile lamina ovate, entire, rarely shallowly forked distally, base rounded, apex acute or lobed, sinus angles 30°-40°; main veins 3 or 4 at base of lamina, veinlets anastomosing, areoles with branching included veinlets. Fertile lamina simple, elliptic, 5-10 × 1-1.5 cm, papery, abaxial surface wholly covered with sporangia in acrostichoid condition except on main veins and narrow strip at margins. Paraphyses abundant, club-shaped.
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