Rhizome shortly creeping, ca. 3 mm in diam.; scales lanceolate, margin long serrate. Fronds rather closely spaced; stipe variable in length, frond subsessile or stipe up to 7 cm; lamina pale brown when dried, sterile lower part narrowly lanceolate, 10-30 × (1-)3-4 cm, herbaceous, both surfaces glabrous, base attenuate and long decurrent, margins entire, apex gradually narrowed into fertile tip 3-12 × 0.1-0.3 cm with slightly recurved margins when dried. Main vein raised on both surfaces, veinlets faintly visible. Sori linear, fully covering abaxial surface of lamina when mature; paraphyses peltate and laterally affixed, stellate, margin denticulate, ca. 0.2 mm in diam.