Rhizome short, erect, clad in dark brown lanceolate paleae; stipites tufted. Stipes slender, 1-5 cm. long, densely clad in patent ferruginous hairs, sometimes glandular. Rhachis slender, similarly clad, bearing about 8 alt. to subopp. pinnae. Lamina (1)-2-6-(10) × 1-2.5 cm., membr., dark green, narrow-oblong, obtuse, densely to rather sparsely pilose on both surfaces, some hairs gland-tipped. Pinnae shortly stalked, obovate to flabellate, 3-5-(15) × 3-10 mm., crenately lobed to crenulate to subentire, obliquely cuneate at base; veinlets flabellate. Sori oblong, c. 2 mm. long, often confluent and covering most of lower surface.

n = 72