Rhizome short; scales medium brown, thin, to 6 by 2 mm, acuminate, with many spreading marginal hairs; phyllopodia 1 cm long. Sterile fronds: stipe pale, 10-12 cm long, rather persistently scaly, scales narrow; lamina thinly coriaceous, 20-30 by 3.5-4.5 cm, narrowly elliptical, base gradually long-decurrent, apex more shortly acuminate; thin pale edge narrow, deflexed; veins distinct, slightly prominent; costa prominent, slender and terete on lower surface; scales on lower surface appressed, narrow, to 1 mm long, with long marginal hairs. Fertile fronds: stipe 12-18 cm; lamina 13-25 by 1-3 cm.