Japan Flora: Fronds evergreen, pilose; rhizomes creeping, 4-7 mm. across, thinly hairy; stipes 30-50 cm. long, more or less scabrous, dull purple-brown; blades broadly lanceolate, 30-60 cm. long, 15- 30 cm. wide, gradually acuminate, pinnate, the rachis uni­formly pubescent on both sides, dull purple-brown; pinnae chartaceous-herbaceous, linear-lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. wide, pin- natilobed, acuminate, the pinnae of smaller fronds obtuse, sub- sessile, obliquely truncate to broadly cuneate, anriculate or with a larger lobe on anterior side at base, spreading setose- hirsute beneath on costas and veinlets, strigose on costas above; ultimate pinnules ovate-deltoid to ovate-oblong, toothed; sori 1-7 on a lobe, submarginal; indusia depressed-orbicular, whit­ish, prominently setose, often ciliate, about 1.5 mm. wide.           

Honshu (Hitachi and Etchu Prov. westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Ryukyus, Formosa, China to India.