形態特徵

• Rhizome short, erect, clothed with narrow brown scales.
• Stipes 6-18 cm long, nearly black, scaly towards the base, elsewhere like the rachis, covered with short stiff multicellular brown hairs; lamina 6-18 cm long, pedate-deltoid, dichotomously branched, the basal dichotomy not quite equal, each primary branch forked again and the outer branch of the secondary forking forked once or twice again, the outermost branches shortest; pinnules subsessile, dimidiate, cuneate at base, acroscopic edge irregularly dentate where sterile, rather crenate where fertile.

分布

• 世界 : E. Africa, S. India, Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Polynesia, Java and New Zealand.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Tatungshan, Chang 400. NANTOU: Lushan, Tsai 1623*, Kao 7942.

參考文獻

• SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 1: 239. 1994.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)