Japan Flora: Evergreen; rMzomes long-creeping, wiry, about 3 mm. across, the scales dense, appressed, rather firm, red- to yellow-brown, slightly lustrous, linear-lanceolate, 5-8 mm. long, ciliate; stipes 5-25 cm. long, shorter to slightly longer than the blade, straw^col이义선, densely brown stellate- hairy while young, glabrescent, scaly only at base; blades firmly coriaceous, mostly simple, lanceolate to broadly so, acute or subobtuse, acute to broadly cuneate at base, entire or undulate, densely brown stellate-hairy on both sides while young, soon glabrous on upper side, the sterile 10-25 cm. long, 2-7 cm. wide, the fertile 10-20 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide; costa raised beneath, the veins and veinlets concealed; sori rounded, confluent, densely covering the underside of blade except the costa. Rocks in hills and low mountains.

Hon­shu (s. Kanto through Tokaido to Kinki and Chugoku Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Ryukyus, Formosa, China to Indochina.