小盾蕨 xiao dun jue

Neolepisorus tenuipes Ching & K. H. Shing.

Rhizome long creeping, ca. 2 mm in diam.; scales brown, broadly lanceolate, acuminate. Fronds distant; stipe slender, 1.5-9 cm, ca. 1 mm in diam., scaly; lamina simple, pale green, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 6-18 × 2-3.5 cm, thin, papery, base cuneate, apex acuminate; veins copiously anastomosing. Sori large, orbicular, arranged in 1 or 2 rows between 2 lateral veins, covered with paraphyses when young.

● Shaded forests, on limestone rocks; 400-1600 m. SE Yunnan, ?Zhejiang.

The record of Neolepisorus minor from Zhejiang is based on the treatment of the genus in Fl. Zhejiang (1: 320. 1993).