Plants terrestrial. Stems long-creeping, stolons absent. Leaves monomorphic, dying back in winter. Petiole ca. 1.5--3 times length of blade, base not swollen; vascular bundles 2, lateral, ± oblong in cross section. Blade broadly deltate, ternate, or ovate, 2--3-pinnate-pinnatifid, reduced distally to pinnatifid apex, herbaceous. Pinnae weakly articulate to rachis but persistent, segment margins entire to crenate; proximal pinnae longest, petiolulate, usually ± inequilateral with pinnules on basiscopic side longer than those on acroscopic side; costae adaxially grooved, grooves not continuous from rachis to costae; indument lacking or of minute (0.1 mm) glands abaxially and sometimes along costae adaxially. Veins free, simple or forked. Sori in 1 row between midrib and margin, ± round; indusia absent. Spores brownish, rugose. x = 40.