形態特徵

• Rhizome short, ascending, clothed with yellowish-brown scales.
• Stipes 10-20 cm long, dark purplish, scattered short brown hairs throughout; lamina 10-22 cm long, ovate tripinnate, herbaceous; ultimate sterile pinnules oblong, obtuse, cuneate at base, the fertile ones rather narrower.
• Sori on the vein-endings, continuous almost all along the margin except near the base, protected by the reflexed margin.

分布

• 世界 : China, Himalayas, India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Malay Isls., Australia, New Zealand and Polynesia.

引證標本

MIAOLI: Taian, Chen s. n. 1967. TAICHUNG: Tatushan, Kuo 122. NANTOU: Lienhuachi, Shieh 248; Kuantaochi, Shieh 177. TAINAN: Kuantimiao, Sawada s. n. 1908. KAOHSIUNG: Liukuei, Shieh & Chen 19.

參考文獻

• SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 1: 211. 1994.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)