毛鳞蕨 mao lin jue

Polypodium normale D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 1. 1825; Lepisorus chapaensis C. Christensen & Tardieu; Microsorum normale (D. Don) Ching; M. subnormale (Nakai) H. Itô; Neocheiropteris normalis (D. Don) Tagawa; Neolepisorus normalis (D. Don) Ching; Phymatodes subnormalis Nakai; Pleopeltis normalis (D. Don) T. Moore; P. subnormalis Alderwerelt; Polypodium longifrons Wallich ex Hooker & Greville; P. maculosum Christ; P. subnormale (Alderwerelt) C. Christensen; Tricholepidium angustifolium Ching; T. angustifolium var. falcatolineare Ching; T. angustifolium var. lanceolatum (Ching & S. K. Wu) Y. X. Ling; T. chapaense (C. Christensen & Tardieu) Ching; T. intermedium Ching; T. lanceolatum Ching & S. K. Wu; T. maculosum (Christ) Ching; T. maculosum var. subnormale (Alderwerelt) Ching; T. mutense Ching & S. K. Wu; T. pteropodum Ching; T. subnudum Ching & S. K. Wu; T. tibeticum Ching & S. K. Wu; T. venosum Ching.

Rhizome thick, creeping; scales adpressed, brown or pale brown, orbicular, with a tuft of hairs at middle on adaxial side. Fronds close or distant; stipe thick, short or frond subsessile, scaly at base; lamina green or yellow-green, lanceolate to loriform, 35-60 × 2-4 cm, widest at middle, herbaceous or thickly papery, glabrous, margin entire or undulate; midrib prominent, veins forming 2 or 3 irregular areoles on each side of midrib, distinct, free included veinlets ending with hydathodes, veinlets at margin of laminae free. Sori orbicular, superficial, or slightly sunken, in 1-3 irregular rows on each side of midrib; paraphyses peltate, clathrate.

Climbing on rocks or tree trunks in wet forests; 900-2600 m. Guangxi, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam].