Polypodium manmeiense Christ, Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 870. 1898; Goniophlebium manmeiense (Christ) Rödl-Linder; Metapolypodium kingpingense Ching & W. M. Chu; Polypodiodes manmeiense (Christ) Fraser-Jenkins; Polypodium pseudodimidiatum Christ; P. scalare Christ; P. simulans Baker.

Rhizome long creeping, 2-3 mm in diam., densely covered with scales; scales dark brown, lanceolate, broad at base, remotely ciliate at margin, acuminate at apex. Fronds remote. Stipe straw-colored or brown at base, 8-12 cm, densely scaly at base, glabrous upward. Lamina narrowly lanceolate, 20-30 × 5-7 cm, deeply pinnatifid, pinnae usually decurrent to next lobes by very narrow wings of rachis in lower part, with rather abruptly narrowing acuminate apex. Lateral lobes 20-30 pairs, narrowly lanceolate, spreading except base with one pair deflexed and slightly shortened, incised-undulate at margins, acute to obtuse at apex. Rachis and costa straw-colored. Veins free, veinlets forked, terminally veinlets ending in elliptic hydathodes inside margin of lobes. Lamina herbaceous, green, glabrous. Sori orbicular, in 1 row on each side of costa, medial, superficial or sunken in cavities on abaxial surface.

Epiphytic on tree trunks or on rocks; 1000-2500 m. Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan [Cambodia, NE India, Laos, N Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam].