Plants 15-25 cm tall. Rhizomes short and decumbent, 2-2.5 mm in diam., densely scaly; scales deep brown, lanceolate with broadly ovate base, 3-4.5 × 0.9-1.2 mm, margin denticulate, apex long acuminate; lumina small, subsquare, thick in texture, transparent, thick-walled. Fronds clustered; stipe straw-colored, frond subsessile or stipe up to 0.5 cm; lamina when dried abaxially grayish green or yellowish, adaxially brownish, lanceolate, (13-)25-30 × 1.2-2 cm, widest at or below middle, leathery or softly leathery, abaxially sparsely scaly, scales brown, lanceolate, small, margin denticulate, lumina thick and indistinct, base attenuate and decurrent nearly to base of stipe, margin flat and straight or slightly undulate, apex attenuate, long caudate; costa raised on both sides, veinlets obscure. Sori medial or closer to margin, orbicular, 3-4 mm in diam.; paraphyses deep brown, stellate, opaque.
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