Plants 5-25 cm tall. Rhizomes creeping, 1.5-2 mm in diam., densely scaly; scales brown, iridescent, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1-1.3 × 0.3-0.45 mm, margin dentate, apex attenuate but not filiform, central part with ± opaque band, marginal lumina large and transparent. Fronds 0.2-2 cm apart; stipe straw-colored, 1-3 cm, 1-1.5 mm in diam.; lamina pale brown, pale grayish, or greenish, lanceolate, 15-30 × (0.2-)0.7-2 cm, widest 1/3-1/2 from base, papery or thickly papery when dried, both surfaces glabrous or with scattered orbicular or lanceolate scales, base attenuate, decurrent, apex long caudate; costa raised, veinlets obscure or slightly visible. Sori linear, on abruptly attenuate distal 1/3(-1/2) of lamina, close to margin, linear, sometimes lower part interrupted; paraphyses orbicular, sometimes slightly stellate, 2.5-3.5 mm in diam., transparent, lumina irregular.
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