Plants to ca. 6 cm tall. Rhizomes slender and creeping, scales brown, subulate-lanceolate, margin denticulate. Fronds remote, dimorphic; sterile fronds subsessile, lamina orbicular to obovate, 1-2 cm or slightly longer, often adpressed to substrate, base cuneate, margin entire, apex rounded. Fertile fronds subsessile or shortly stipitate, lamina ligulate or oblanceolate, 3-6 × less than 1 cm, fleshy, when dried leathery, abaxially sparsely scaly, adaxially smooth, base attenuate. Sporangia in discrete sori, sori orbicular, in 1 row on each side of main vein, medial between costa and margin.