Plants 10-25 cm tall. Rhizomes long and creeping, 1.5-2.5 mm in diam., densely scaly when young, rhizome later naked; scales pale brown with narrow dark opaque central band, lanceolate, 2-4 × 0.6-1.5 mm, polished, margins entire or serrate. Fronds 0.5-2 cm apart; stipe normally straw-colored, less often brown, (1-)2-5(-6) cm, 0.8-1.5 mm in diam.; lamina abaxially grayish yellow-green, adaxially greenish, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, (9-)15-25 × 0.4-1.5 cm, widest at middle, softly thinly leathery, base cuneate, decurrent, margin revolute when dried, apex shortly acuminate; costa raised on both sides, veinlets obscure. Sori restricted to distal 1/2, slightly closer to costa, orbicular or slightly ovate; paraphyses brown at center, orbicular, 0.3-0.5 mm in diam., lumina dense, thick, opaque or transparent.
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A herb. It grows 10-25 cm tall. The rhizomes are long and creeping. They are scaly when young. The fronds are 1-2 cm apart. The blades are 15-25 cm long by 0.4-1.5 cm wide. There can be teeth along the edge.
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