Rhizome creeping, rather slender, fronds close; scales dark, glossy, apparently 3 by 1 mm, not slender-tipped; phyllopodia 5 mm long. Sterile frond: stipe 5 cm, covered when young with appressed small dark entire scales; lamina thinly coriaceous, 25-40 by 1.8-2½ cm, widest above middle, very gradually narrowed to decurrent base, also gradually to narrowly rounded apex; thin edge very narrow, reflexed when dry; veins ± distinct; costa slender and prominent beneath; scales on costa beneath small, appressed, ovate-acute, dark, glossy; scales on lamina few, small, dark, appressed, with a few spreading hairs 2-3 cells long. Fertile frond: stipe 10 cm; lamina to 25 by 1.3 cm, shape as sterile, with rather abruptly narrowed blunt apex.
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