Rhizome short; scales dark, glossy, rigid, c. 7 mm long, hardly 1 mm wide, somewhat crisped, marginal hairs few; phyllopodia 1 cm long. Sterile frond: stipe 6-8 cm; lamina thin, 20-37 by 1-3.8 cm, widest about middle, narrowed gradually to decurrent base and to narrow slightly acuminate apex; thin edge very narrow, deflexed; veins slightly prominent, apices sometimes anastomosing; costa beneath slightly prominent; surfaces glabrescent. Fertile frond: stipe 8 cm; lamina 19 by 1.5 cm, shape as sterile.