Plants 15-25 cm tall. Rhizomes creeping, strong, 1.8-2.5 mm in diam., densely scaly, sometimes becoming naked when old; scales adpressed, lanceolate with broadly ovate base, 2.5-4 × 0.8-1.2 mm, clathrate, thin and brittle, base ovate, margin denticulate, apex long acuminate, lumina large and transparent, isodiametric at base, and oblong at apex. Fronds up to 1 cm apart; stipe straw-colored, (1-)2.5-5.5 cm, 0.8-1.5 mm in diam.; lamina grayish green or brownish on both surfaces when dried, broadly lanceolate, 14-30 × 1.4-5 cm, widest 1/3-1/2 from base, softly leathery, abaxially sparsely scaly; scales lanceolate, transparent, base attenuate, decurrent, apex shortly acuminate; costa raised on both sides, veinlets obscure. Sori on distal half of lamina, midway between costa and margins or nearer costa, orbicular, 3-4 mm in diam.; paraphyses brown, stellate, 0.3-0.35 mm in diam.; lumina transparent.
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