Plants forming dense clones. Roots arising at nodes. Petioles 1--14 cm, sparsely erect-pilose to glabrous. Pinnae 2--17 × 1--16 mm, densely pilose abaxially, sparsely pilose adaxially. Sporocarp stalks erect, unbranched, attached at base of petiole, or rarely up to 3.8 mm above it, not hooked at apex, 1.7--6.7 mm. Sporocarps nodding or perpendicular, 2.4--5 × 2--3 mm, 1.3--1.7 mm thick, ovate in lateral view, covered with needlelike hairs with spreading tips when young but soon glabrate; raphe 0.6--1.4 mm, proximal tooth 0.2 mm, blunt, or absent, distal tooth 0.2 mm or absent. Sori 10--14.