Rhizome short-creeping; scales narrowly ovate, 3-13 mm long, 0.3-1.5 mm wide, with long-attenuate apices. Fronds crowded; fertile lamina smaller but usually on a longer stipe. Stipe 8-15 cm long, scaly at the base. Lamina oblong-obovate to oblong-elliptic, 18-45 cm long, 3.5-6 cm wide, bright green and shiny above, dull beneath; base narrowly cuneate, tapered into the stipe; margins entire or undulate; apex subacute to acute; phyllopodia 1.5-2.5 cm long; veins making a wide angle with the midrib, simple or forked, free or with occasional anastomoses.