形態特徵

• Rhizomes long-creeping, scaly.
• Fronds distant and commonly tufted at the nodes; stipes 2-15 cm long, scaly, the scales broad, pale brown, entire, many cells bearing spherical glamdular hairs; laminae elliptic, 10-25 cm long, about 5 cm wide, the lower pinnae gradually shortened to auricles; pinnae 3-5 cm long, 6-8 mm wide, cut almost to the costa into oblique entire lobes; upper surfaces of rachises and costae densely short-hairy, of costules and veins almost glabrous, of laminae bearing scattered spherical glands; lower surfaces of costae, costules and veins bearing fine, often 2-celled hairs and scattered spherical glands; veins pinnate in the lobes, simple, obligue.
• Sori close to the margin. of few sporangia, with small glandular indusia.

分布

• 台灣 : Growing in open waste places, road-sides or forest margins, common in Taiwan.
• 世界 : S. China, India, Ceylon, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, Java and New Guinea.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanhutashan, Kuo 514*; Tuling, Shieh & Tsai 4474. TAOYUAN: Tamanshan, Suzuki 18210. HSINCHU: Kuanwu, Huang 6606, Shieh & Tsia 2118. TAICHUNG: Anmashan, Kao 4455. NANTOU: Yushih, Suzuki s. n. 1932. Hoshe, Tsai 1983. CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Hsu 7473, Tsai 1846. KAOHSIUNG: Kueiku, Shieh & Tsai 924; Shanping, Kuo 1950. PINGTUNG: Tashulin, Suzuki 7927. TAITUNG: Shianyang, Tsai 9700; Taitung, Sasaki s. n. 1933. HUALIEN: Lanshan, Shieh & Tsai 1473; Mukuashan, Kao 4117.

參考文獻

• TSAI, JINN-LAI and SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG. 1994. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 1: 388. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)