Rhizome thick, creeping; scales adpressed, brown or pale brown, orbicular, with a tuft of hairs at middle on adaxial side. Fronds close or distant; stipe thick, short or frond subsessile, scaly at base; lamina green or yellow-green, lanceolate to loriform, 35-60 × 2-4 cm, widest at middle, herbaceous or thickly papery, glabrous, margin entire or undulate; midrib prominent, veins forming 2 or 3 irregular areoles on each side of midrib, distinct, free included veinlets ending with hydathodes, veinlets at margin of laminae free. Sori orbicular, superficial, or slightly sunken, in 1-3 irregular rows on each side of midrib; paraphyses peltate, clathrate.
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