Rhizome creeping, slender, branching, often densely arranged, the plant forming matted patches, up to 10 cm. long; clad when young in pale brown ovate to ovate-lanceolate to spathulate paleae up to 5 mm. long; fronds close-set along rhizome in about 3 series. Stipes hardly developed. Lamina coriac. to almost fleshy, dark green; spathulate to oblong- or linear-spathulate, gradually narrowed to base; glab. when old, ± pubescent below, and sts above, when young; veins hidden, sts the main vein evident; 5-12 × 3-5 mm.; rarely up to 3 cm. long; margins entire to faintly sinuate. Sporangia us. aggregated in a mass near apex of frond, 2-3 mm. diam., rarely as a pair of coenosori || and close to main vein and up to 1 cm. long; paraphyses few or absent.