Rhizome 1 mm thick, internodes to 1 cm long; vascular strands with bundle sheath absent to hyaline; sclerenchyma strands many. Rhizome scales peltate, squarrose, 6 by 1 mm wide, contracted to a narrow acumen, brown, evenly coloured, entire (den-tate at base). Fronds simple, dimorphic. Fertile fronds with stipe 2.5-4.5 cm long; lamina 27-29 by 0.4-0.5 cm, linear. Sterile fronds with stipe 0.5-3.5 cm long; lamina 4-12 by 0.6-1 cm, index 4.5-20, widest at 0.5-0.7 from base. Venation: costa only distinct. Hydathodes absent. Margin cartilaginous, thickened, without notches. Sori round to elongate, confluent within one areole and across connecting veins, in one row between costa and margin, 2 mm wide, superficial to slightly sunken.
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