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Rhizome shortly creeping, with pale yellow-brown linear-lanceolate slightly serrate scales about 5 mm long, sometimes with a dark stripe, with pale edges. Fronds 10–30, tufted, 8–25 cm tall, suberect, arching or mostly ± procumbent, often proliferous with bud below the apex; stipe 3–20 cm long, thinly pilose, becoming ± glabrous; lamina narrowly oblong or oblong-ovate in outline, 3–11 cm long, 1.8–5.5 cm wide, pinnate or slightly bipinnate, the pinnae in 3–6 pairs, well-separated sometimes by more than the width of the pairs, 0.7–5 cm long, 0.7–4 cm wide, oblong to narrowly triangular, shallowly to deeply pinnatifid or in bigger pinnae the lower segments actually separate; segments 2–6 on each side, ± oblong to rounded, up to 1.5 cm long, 8 mm wide, densely pilose on both sides with pale ferruginous hairs; venation obscure. Sori small, discrete, appearing continuous at maturity; indusium discrete or ± continuous, membranous, narrow, entire or erose, inconspicuous.