Rhizome condensed, rarely elongate, densely clad in brown lanceolate paleae; rootlets woolly, descending or occ. ascending and emitting tufts of stipites; fronds crowded, bearing at base tufts of linear-lanceolate paleae up to 1 cm. long. Stipes 1-7 cm. long, winged by decurrent lamina. Main vein prominent, veins hidden, anastomosing, no included free veinlets. Lamina subcoriac. to almost fleshy, narrow-lanceolate, attenuate, entire, bright green above, paler below, 5-25 cm. × 10-20 mm.; margin entire or rarely sinuate to very shallowly lobed, recurved. Sori in a single row, on each side of and near the main vein, often obliquely paired, 6-24, globose to oblong, 6-2 mm. diam.