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PLATE 3. 

 TRICH0IY1ANES TERETICAULUM Ching 



HYMENOPHYLLACEAE 



TRICHOMANES TERETICAULUM Ching* in Sinensia 1:2 (1929) 



Rhizome naked or nearly so, very short, interwoven in dense wiry fibrous roots; 

 stipes densely caespitose-fasciculate, wiry, rigid, terete, not winged or only narrowly 

 winged towards apex, 4-6 cm. long or longer, naked; fronds glabrous, subdeltoid to linear; 

 oblong, 4-6 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. broad, 3-pinnatifid, rachis narrowly winged throughout; 

 pinnae 3-5 on each side, remote, erect-patent, oblong-ovate, 1-2 cm. long, the upper ones 

 gradually shortened; texture thin-herbaceous, translucent, dull green; veins distinct, 1 to 

 each segment, spurious veinlets wanting; sori terminal on ultimate segments, mostly 

 immersed, 2-3 to each pinna, inducium short funnel-shaped, slightly dilated, obscurely 

 undulate at mouth not bifid, receptacle long-exerted, stout, dark brown. 



Distribution: Kwangsi 



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^ Plate 3. Fig. 1. Habit sketch, (natural size). 2. A portion of pinna, showing venation and 

 inducia (x 4). 



For the species by Ching, readers are referred to Sinensia 1: p. 1— 13 (1929), the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Natural History, Academia Sinica. 



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