Japan Flora: Rhizomes short, densely scaly; fronds tufted; stipes 5-12 cm. long, straw-colored to brown, obliquely jointed at apex, hairy and scaly throughout, the basal scales pale brown, membranous, lanceolate, 4-5 mm. wide, ciliate; blades herbaceous, broadly lanceolate, 5-13 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acute to subobtuse, very slightly narrowed at base; pin­nae 4-12 pairs, spreading, oblong-ovate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, obtuse to subacute, obliquely cuneate at base, sub- auriculate at base on anterior side, undulate to shallowly lobu- late, thinly hairy on both sides, with narrow hairlike scales be­neath, the upper pinnae decurrent on the rachis; sori marginal; indusia subglobose, irregularly lobed, ciliate on the lobes.

Honshu (Bitchu Prov.); rare. Korea and Manchuria.