Japan Flora: Rhizomes short, erect to ascending; fronds pilose, deciduous; stipes tufted, 5-25 cm. long, sparsely scaly, thinly whitish spreading-pilose, pale straw-colored; scales spreading, pale brown, linear, 2-4 mm. long, slightly broadened at base, long-ciliate; blades lanceolate, 15-50 cm. long, 2.5-15 cm. wide, long-acuminate, gradually narrowed at base, more or less whitish pilose on both sides and on margin, densely so above on rachis and on costas, the rachis beneath with spreading ciliate scales; pinnae broadly linear to deltoid- lanceolate, 5-13 mm. wide, acute to acuminate, coarsely obtuse­toothed, more often pinnately lobed, sessile, broadly adnate to the rachis, auriculate; sori orbicular; indusia minute, long- pilose. Walls and rocks in lowlands and low mountains. 

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; com­mon. Korea, Ryukyus, Formosa, China to Indochina, and India.