金冠鳞毛蕨(原变种) jin guan lin mao jue (yuan bian zhong)

Aspidium filix-mas (Linnaeus) Swartz var. chrysocoma Christ, Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 966. 1898; A. chrysocoma (Christ) Christ; Dryopteris chrysocoma var. apina Ching, p.p.; D. chrysocoma var. gracilis Ching, p.p., not D. gracilis (Heward) Domin (1929), nor D. gracilis (T. Moore ex Beddome) Ching (1938); D. chrysocoma var. major Ching; D. fangii Ching, Fraser-Jenkins & Z. R. Wang; Nephrodium chrysocoma (Christ) Handel-Mazzetti.

Stipe and rachis with pale brown scales, former with scales ovate-lanceolate.

Thickets, broad-leaved evergreen forests, forest margins; 2400-3000 m. Guizhou, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Myanmar, Nepal].