Rhizome to 5 mm thick, not elongated, phyllopods contiguous. Anatomy: vascular strands c. 10, ground tissue completely sclerified. Rhizome scales spreading, basifixed, 4.5-10 mm long, base dentate to ciliate, acumen dentate or with long, sometimes curly cilia, light brown; small scales often interspersed with the larger ones. Fronds monomorphic, sessile or indistinctly to 13 cm stalked, lamina 24-125 by 3.4-12 cm, index 6-14, base very gradually narrowed, widest above the middle, apex acuminate. Venation: veins distinct, veinlets much branched and strongly anastomosing, free veinlets excurrent and recurrent. Hydathodes distinct. Stellate hairs dimorphic, a dense mat, brown to greyish brown, the straight upper rays appressed or patent, acicular, one central, elongated, erect ray sometimes present. Sori apical, closely packed, 0.5 mm wide, containing c. 10 sporangia, many scattered over each areole, superficial, developing acropetally. Sporangia sessile, paraphyses not differentiated. Spores smooth.
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