Rhizomes stout and erect; scales brown, lanceolate, membranous. Fronds tufted; stipe straw-colored, sparsely scaly proximally, stipe of sterile frond 4-5 cm, that of fertile frond 7-16 cm. Sterile fronds: lamina broadly ovate or ovate-deltoid, 3-4 × 1.5-4 cm, 3-or 4-pinnate, herbaceous; hydathodes spindle-shaped, slightly sunken below frond surface on dried specimens. Fertile fronds: lamina ovate or ovate-oblong, 4-8 × 1.5-3.5 cm, finely 3-pinnate to 3-pinnate-pinnatifid. Sterile pinnae 6 or 7 pairs, basal pair largest, ovate, 1.6-2.2 × 1.2-1.7 cm. Ultimate sterile segments deltoid or oblong, apex acute, one veinlet in each segment. Ultimate fertile segments linear at first, elliptic when mature, 3-5 × 1-2 mm, apex obtuse, or sometimes acute. Sori borne near vein tips, somewhat rounded, confluent and spreading over abaxial surface of fertile lamina at maturity. False indusia brown, linear, margins entire.
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