It bears small, firm scales appressed to the surface, densely covering it and occasionally overlapping.

He based his description on two specimens collected near La Chonta, Ecuador by Joseph Nelson Rose et al. in 1918 and deposited at the United States National Herbarium.

[5] In 1973, Werner Rauh transferred this species into the genus Solanopteris,[6] erected by Edwin Copeland in 1951 for a similar species, which he distinguished from Microgramma on the basis of the domatia on the rhizome, irregularly netted venation, and the fleshy texture of its leaf blades.

[8] He did not transfer this species to Microgramma until 1984, in preparation for publishing a catalog of fern type specimens at the National Herbarium.

[10][11] Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests,[1] where it grows as an epiphyte.