形態特徵

• Rhizome short, ascending, scaly.
• Stipes 8-25 cm long, dark purplish, polished; lamina 8-20 cm long, papyraceous, consisting of a deeply lobed terminal pinna and 1-2 pairs of similarly lobed lateral pinnae; veins forked, between the veins (on both surfaces) are irregular short raised lines.
• Fertile fronds hardly different from sterile in shape but on much longer stipes.

分布

• 世界 : S. China, N. India, Malay Peninsula, S. Japan, the Ryukyus, the Philippines and Borneo.

引證標本

NANTOU: Sun Moon Lake, Shieh s. n. 1967; Lienhuachi; Chen 995. TAITUNG: Tawu, Shieh & Chen 1018.

參考文獻

• SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 1: 227. 1994.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)