Japan Flora: Rhizomes stout, short; stipes tufted, 15-40 cm. long, the scales very dense on lower part, ovate to broadly lanceolate or linear, 1-1.5(-2) cm. long, abrupdy acuminate, dark brown; blades firmly coriaceous, 20-60 cm. long, 10-25 cm. wide, lustrous, dark green; pinnae 3-11 pairs, ovate to narrowly oblong-ovate, 7-13 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, abruptly narrowed to a broad tail at tip, rounded to broadly cuneate at base, oblique, falcate, short- pedolulate, nearly entire near apex, sinuate-toothed at base, with rufous woolly-scales beneath while very young; sori uni- formly covering undersurface; indusia orbicular, nearly entire. Rocks near seashores, rarely on inland hills.

Hokkaido (s. distr.), Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. s. Korea, Ryukyus, Formosa, China, Malaysia, India to e. and S. Africa, and Hawaii.

var. devexiscapulae (Koidz.) Tagawa. Pinnae narrower, broadly lanceolate, 8-13 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, nearly equilateral and cuneate at base. Hills and low mountains; Honshu (Echigo Prov. to Kanto Distr. and westw.). Korea, China, and Indochina.