Plants small, 2-7 cm tall. Rhizome long creeping, 0.6-1.6 mm in diam., in cross section sometimes with a single, central sclerenchyma strand; phyllopodia 0.5-1.5 cm apart, lateral buds between or opposite to phyllopodia. Scales peltate, 3.3-5.7 × 0.3-0.7 mm, base entire to ciliate; acumen light brown, ciliate; short, ± orbicular to ovate scales regularly present. Fronds strongly dimorphic, distinctly to indistinctly stipitate. Sterile fronds: ± sessile or up to 2 cm stipitate; lamina elliptic to ovate, 1.5-2 × 1.2-1.5 cm, base cordate to rounded or occasionally cuneate, apex rounded. Fertile fronds: stipe up to 2.5 cm; lamina elliptic to obovate, 5-7 × 0.3-1.1 cm, base cuneate to gradually attenuate. Hydathodes absent. Indument persistent, dimorphic, dense, brown, lower layer mostly whitish; upper layer composed of hairs 0.7-1.4 mm in diam., with erect-spreading, acicular rays, usually distinctly raised above a lower layer with mainly woolly rays. Sori superficial, without central bundle of paraphyses. Sporangia with stalks 1-1.5 × as long as capsule.
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