Rhizome shortly to moderately creeping, densely scaly; scales dark brown, lanceolate, margin entire, apex long acuminate; cells dense, longer than wide. Fronds closely spaced, monomorphic; stipe narrowly winged; lamina abaxially paler, adaxially green, lanceolate, 35-40 × ca. 3 cm, widest at upper 1/3, narrowed from middle downward, thick and fleshy, curled up when dry, glabrous, attenuate at base and decurrent into stipe, apex acuminate or caudate; costa raised abaxially, distinct but not raised adaxially, straw-colored or pale green; veins hidden, anastomosing with free included veinlets. Sori linear, up to 2.5 cm, oblique, continuous from near costa to margin of frond, superficial; paraphyses few, sparse. Spores ellipsoid-monolete.
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