Plants 10-30 cm tall. Rhizome long creeping, 1.2-3.7 mm in diam., in cross section sometimes with a single, central sclerenchyma strand; phyllopodia (0.5-)2-8 cm apart, lateral buds alternating with phyllopodia. Scales peltate, (2.2-)4-9.5 × 0.7-1.6 mm, base entire to irregularly dentate; acumen shiny light brown, with long, curly marginal cilia; short, ± ovate scales occasionally present. Fronds subdimorphic, stipitate. Sterile fronds: stipe 1-30 cm, lamina (5-)10-20 × 1.5-7 cm, base ± gradually attenuate, apex shortly acuminate to long caudate. Fertile fronds: stipe 1.5-25 cm; lamina widest at or below middle, 5.5-22 × 0.8-3 cm. Hydathodes distinct, ± superficial, rarely distinctly sunken. Indument persistent, monomorphic, thin, light to grayish brown; hairs 0.3-0.5 mm in diam., with appressed, boat-shaped rays. Sori superficial, without central bundle of paraphyses. Sporangia with stalks 0.75-1 × as long as capsule.
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