Rhizome 4 mm thick, internodes to 3.5 cm long; vascular strands with bundle sheath fully sclerified; sclerenchyma strands many, mainly peripheral. Rhizome scales peltate, squarrose, 5.5 by 0.7 mm wide (at base), contracted to a narrow acumen, brown to blackish with a very narrow lighter margin, entire to remotely and weakly dentate. Fronds simple, dimorphic. Fertile fronds with stipe 2-5.5 cm long; lamina 11-14 by 0.8-1 cm, index 13.4-14, widest at 0.3-0.4 from base. Sterile fronds with stipe 1.5-4.5 cm long; lamina 13-18 by 2.5-4.5 cm, index 3.1-6.9, widest at 0.2-0.3 from base. Venation: main veins on upper surface raised, distinct. Hydathodes absent. Margin not differentiated or cartilaginous, flat; notches sporadically present, in fertile fronds absent. Sori forming transverse coenosori, 2 mm wide, superficial.
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