Plants 3-10 cm tall. Rhizomes short, erect, scaly; scales concolorous, brown, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, membranous. Fronds clustered; stipe stramineous, 1-2 cm, brittle, articulate below middle; lamina 1-pinnate-pinnatifid, lanceolate, 2-8 cm × 3-12 mm, thinly herbaceous, both surfaces glabrous, base attenuate, apex acuminate; pinnae 7-14 pairs, sessile, spreading or slightly oblique; lower pinnae shorter than above, remote from each other; middle pinnae largest, subrhombic or obliquely ovate, 4-8 × 3-5 mm, base broadly cuneate or truncate, margin pinnatifid, with 2 or 3 pairs of segments, apex acuminate or acute; pinna segments obovate or tongue-shaped; basal pair largest, ca. 2 mm, undulate or with 1 or 2 crenations at tip. Veins pinnate, not reaching laminar margin. Sori orbicular, consisting of a few sporangia, located at veinlet tips or on veinlets, usually 1-3 per segment; indusia saucer-shaped, thinly membranous, margin with flexuose brown articulate long hairs.
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