Japan Flora: Rhizomes short, densely scaly; fronds tufted; stipes 3-10 cm. long, straw-colored to red-brown, obliquely jointed at apex, with hairs and scales； the basal scales red-brown, linear-lanceo­late, acuminate, scattered ciliate; blades narrowly deltoid-ovate to broadly lanceolate, 5-15 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, acuminate with an obtuse tip, scarcely narrowed and simply pinnate at base, pinnatiparted toward the tip, the rachis hairy; pinnae obliquely spreading, ovate or ovate-oblong, 1-3 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, obtuse, sessile, pinnatilobed to crenately toothed, hairy, the upper ones decurrent on the winged rachis; sori near the margin, rusty-brown; indusia subglobose, irregularly lobed and ciliate.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, Man­churia and China.

var. glabrata (Nakai) Nemoto. Pinnae glabrescent, horizon­tally spreading. Honshu (centr. distr.).