形態特徵

• Rhizome widely creeping, 1-1.5 mm wide; scales lanceolate, margins ciliate, light brown to reddish-brown, becoming appressed and turning dark brown on older portions.
• Fronds fleshy, linear, 3 mm broad, 2-10 cm long; sessile or with very short stipes; undersurface densely covered with a mass of tangled yellowish to reddish-brown stellate hairs with long needle-like rays; venation hidden; stellate hairs on upper surface appressed, sparse.
• Sori oval, in a single row on either side of costa, completely hidden by stellate hairs when young.

分布

• 世界 : China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyus.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shihlin, Simozawa 254; Tansui, Sho 104. ILAN: Taipingshan, Sasaki s. n. 1932. HSINCHU: Chinpingshan, Uchida s. n. 1922. MIAOLI: Nanchuang, Hsu, Kuoh & Chang 12500. TAICHUNG: Pahsienshan, Huang 1278; Anmashan, Liu et al. s. n. 1957. NANTOU: Hoshe, Kao 3843; Kuantaochi, Kuo 2124. KAOHSIUNG: Meishan, Hsu 1404. PINGTUNG: Arikan, Matuda 271. HUALIEN: Makaroku, Suzuki 19874.

參考文獻

• SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG, DEVOL, CHARLES E. and KUO, CHEN-MENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 1: 514. 1994.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)