Japan Flora: Rhizomes short, clothed with old stipes and dark brown lustrous scales about 2 mm. long; fronds evergreen, tufted; stipes lustrous, fragile, terete, 10-25 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. across, sparsely scaly toward the base; blades 5-angled, firmly herbaceous, 2-8 cm. long, shorter than the stipes, as wide to slightly wider than long, temately parted, glabrous and gray-green above, white- to pale yellow-farinose beneath; pin­nae slighdy shorter than the blade, obtuse, decurrent on the rachis on the anterior side, pinnatiparted, the 2 lowest posterior pinnae elongate, sometimes pinnatilobed, the terminal segment decurrent on the rachis; sori marginal; false indusia (reflexed margin of the pinnae) hyaline, entire or crenate-undulate. Dry rocks.

Honshu (Rikuchu, Kanto Distr., Kii), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, Manchuria, Siberia, China, Formosa to Malaysia, and India.