Japan Flora: Rhi­zomes short, erect, densely scaly; fronds tufted, green to some­what whitish or glaucescent; stipes 1-5 cm. long, lustrous, red- brown, minutely hairy to nearly glabrous, densely scaly near base, the scales pale brown, membranous, lanceolate to linear, 2-4 mm. long; blades thinly herbaceous, lanceolate, 10-30 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, acuminate, narrowed at base, slightly whitish to glaucescent beneath, bipinnatiparted, nearly gla­brous; pinnae broadly triangular-lanceolate, obtuse to subacute, broadly cuneate to nearly truncate at base, sessile; pinnules ob­long, obtuse, usually obliquely spreading, usually obtusely toothed; sori 1-6 on each pinnule, nearer the margin than the costule; indusia large, thinly membranous, glabrous, globose, shallowly and irregularly lobed.  Shaded rocks in moun­tains.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, Man­churia, China, Amur, and Ussuri.