Rhizome short, erect, 1–1.5 cm thick; scales brown, triangular with cordate base, 4 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, acuminate, entire. Fronds tufted, 27–45 cm tall, simply pinnate, budding at the apex; stipe dark purple-brown, slender, 7–18 cm long, glabrous except for basal scales, shiny; rhachis glabrous; pinnae ± rectangular or the uppermost ones obcuneate, 1–2 cm long, 5–9 mm wide, coarsely crenate-lobulate along upper and outer margins but not deeply incised, rounded at apex, straight along lower margin, the apical pinna obtriangular, all glabrous; pinna-stalklets ± 0.5 mm long. Sori situated in basal half of upper margin, oblong with curved lower margin, 2–3(–4) per pinna, 1–2 mm wide, the 2 near the rhachis sometimes contiguous, glabrous.
