Japan Flora: Plant very spar­ingly pilose, mosdy while young; rhizomes long-creeping, 0.5- 0.7 mm. across; fronds oblong to ovate-oblong, 15-30 cm. long, 4-7 cm. wide; stipes 5-10 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide in­clusive of the entire sometimes slightly crispate wings; blades ovate to narrowly so, usually narrowed at tip, 3-pinnatiparted, the rachis winged, 2-3 mm. wide; pinnae obliquely spreading, usually somewhat elongate; ultimate pinnules or segments en­tire, broadly linear, about 2 mm. wide, obtuse; indusia de­pressed-orbicular, the valves obsoletely toothed on upper mar­gin or entire, 2-3 mm. wide.  Among mosses on rocks and on tree trunks.

Honshu (Kii Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu; rare. Formosa, China to Malaysia, and India.