Plants to 6 cm tall. Rhizomes pale green, sparsely scaly; scales clathrate, lower part ± rounded, margins irregularly branched, apex subulate. Fronds remote, dimorphic; sterile fronds subsessile or with stipe 2-4 mm; lamina orbicular, ovate, or obovate, 1.6-2.5(-5) × 1.2-1.5 cm, base rounded or cuneate, margin entire, apex rounded to subacute; fertile fronds: stipe 3-8 mm; lamina oblong or narrowly lanceolate, 3.5-6(-8) × 2-4 cm, margins revolute when dried. Veins reticulate, with simple included veinlets. Sporangia in linear coenosori, between costa and margin, covered with paraphyses when young.