Plants terrestrial or epilithic, evergreen. Rhizomes shortly to long creeping, solenostelic with an internal sclerified pith, densely scaly; scales appressed or spreading, reddish brown, 1-15 cells wide, nearly acicular. Fronds approximate or distant, 0.5-1 cm apart; stipe stramineous or castaneous to black, adaxially sulcate, with a single vascular bundle, glabrous; lamina once pinnate, lanceolate, gradually narrowed toward apex or terminated by a pinna similar in size to lateral ones, herbaceous, strongly scented of coumarin; pinnae subsessile, dimidiate, rhomboid or cuneate, upper margin shallowly lobed-incised or entire, incisions reaching to or slightly beyond level of sori, apices obtuse-acute, straight on upper margin; veins free, evident, not reaching margin. Sori marginal, terminal on several veinlet ends; indusia oblong, continuous or interrupted by incisions, attached at base. Spores ellipsoid, monolete.
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