Rhizome without the scales 1.3-2.8 mm diam., white waxy under the scales or not. Scales brown, without pale border, narrowed evenly towards apex, often curling back-ward, not bearing multiseptate hairs, lacking marginal setae or teeth or those rare, or toothed, peltate, 4-6 by 0.8-1 mm. Stipes dark brown, adaxially grooved, 3-14 cm long, glabrous or with few scales. Lamina narrowly ovate, elongate, pinnate with pinnatilobed to pinnatifid pinnae towards the base and in the middle part, glabrous, 10-22 by 3-6.5 cm. Pinnae linear-triangular. Longest pinnae 1.5-3.5 by 0.3-0.7 cm. False veins not present. Sori separate, frequently single on a segment at the forking point of veins. Indusium attached at the broad base and hardly or not at the sides, more or less triangular to rhomboid, about as wide as long, 0.4-0.6 by 0.4-0.6 mm, upper margin not elongated, truncate or slightly rounded, extending to lamina margin or not.