Terrestrial; rhizome erect or shortly creeping, to 5 mm diameter, with dark brown narrowly triangular ?entire acute rhizome scales to 1.5 mm long, with paler margins. Fronds tufted, to 30 cm long, proliferous in centre of terminal pinna. Stipe 9–25 cm long, with scattered scales similar to those of rhizome. Lamina ovate in outline, 8–13x7–10 cm, 1-pinnate, the lower pinnae hardly or not decrescent, the terminal pinna very similar to the lateral ones and the same size. Pinnae 2–3 pairs, (sub-)opposite, to 6x2 cm, shortly petiolate, narrowly ovate, slightly asymmetric with the acroscopic base parallel to the rachis, basiscopic base more cuneate, margin crenate, glabrous or nearly so. Rachis slightly winged, with some scattered scales. Sori many on veins, linear, to 10 mm long; indusium linear, entire, to 0.7 mm wide, membranous. Fig. 2: 1–2, p. 14.