Lithophyte or low epiphyte; rhizome erect, 2–9 mm diameter, with dark brown clathrate-lanceolate attenuate subentire rhizome scales up to 3 mm long. Fronds tufted, erect or arching, not proliferous, herbaceous. Stipe greyish-green when dried, becoming dark brown at the base, 1–13 cm long, with scattered subulate dark brown weakly pseudoserrate scales up to 2 mm long. Lamina narrowly elliptic in outline, 5–23x1.5–5 cm, 2-pinnatifid to 2-pinnatisect, basal 2–3 pairs slightly reduced; pinnae up to 10 pairs, to 3x1.3 cm, pinnules and pinnule lobes obovate or spatulate, the basal acroscopic lobe usually free, up to 6 mm long, sharply dentate to shallowly incised on the outer margin, glabrous above, subglabrous beneath. Rachis greyish-green when dried with narrow wings, glabrous. Sori 2–5 per lobe, linear to oval, 2–4 mm; indusium linear, almost transparent, erose, 0.3–0.5 mm wide. Fig. 10: 1–2, p. 62.
