Terrestrial fern 1-1.5 mm tall. Stipe 30-50 cm, basally glossy brown to straw coloured, with minute glandular hairs, sometimes nearly glabrous. Lamina 50-100 by 30-50 cm, narrowly ovate to triangular, 3-4(-5) pinnate, herbaceous, with the same minute hairs as the rest of the plant. Basal pinnae (sub)opposite, higher pinnae generally alternate, all pinnae with a short petiolule. Pinnulae narrowly ovate or triangular, divided in secondary pinnules which are pinnate or pinnatifid. The ultimate pinnules or lobes with one free vein not reaching the margin. Sori terminal or subterminal on the vein.