Japan Flora: Stipes 30-45 cm. long, brown; scales at base of stipes numerous, thinly membranous, linear or nearly filiform, 10-20 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, brown, entire; scales on lower half of stipes lanceolate, 2-7 mm. long, long-acuminate, entire, pur­plish brown, deflexed, with elliptic to round cells, the scales on upper half of stipe and on rachis similar to the lower ones but smaller, ascending to appressed, few-toothed, narrowly deltoid- ovate to broadly lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long; blades herbaceous- chartaceous, ovate, 30-50 cm. long, 20-25 cm. wide, acuminate, bipinnatiparted at base, simply pinnate in upper half; pinnae several pairs, the uppermost linear-lanceolate, forming a large pinnatiparted terminal pinna, the median linear-oblong, 2-5 cm. wide, acuminate, broadly cuneate at base, sessile to short- petiolulate, pinnately lobed to parted, sparingly pilose above, with a few appressed small scales on costas beneath; pinnules obliquely spreading, rounded to oblong, 6-12 mm. wide, sub- entirc to obsoletcly crenate; lowest pinnae ovate-deltoid, to 25 cm. long, 15 cm. wide, distinctly petiolulate, oblique, the seg­ments on posterior side linear-lanccolate, 2-4 times as long as those of the anterior side, usually pinnately lobed to coarsely crenate; sori scattered or in 2 rows slightly nearer the costulc than the margin; indusia obsolete.

Kyushu (Satsuma Prov.); rare. China.