ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 175 
ASPLENIUM LORICEUM Christ 
POLYPODIACE: 
ASPLENIUM LORICEUM Christ in C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 119 (1905). 
Asplenium formosae Christ (non A. formosanum Baker, 1891), Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 613 
(1904). 
Diplazium Makinoi Yabe in Matsum. et Hayata, Fnum. Pl. Form. in Journ. Coll. Sic. Imp. 
Univ. Tokio 22: 600 (1906). 
Asplenium Makinot Hayata, Ic. Pl. Form. 4: 224 f. 154 (1914); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. Suppl. I. 6 
(1913-17). 
Asplenium Wightianum Merr. (non Wall. 1828), Enum. Hainan Pl. in Lingnan Sci. Journ. 5: 
15 (1927). 
Rhizome rather thick, short, erect, densely radicose, sparcely scaly; scales 
lanceolate, brown, fimbriate; fronds caespitose, stipe 20-24 cm long, pale straminous, 
herbaceous, sparcely scaly, with rachis compressed upon drying, lamina ovate-oblong, 
17-24 cm long, 7-14 cm broad, impari-pinnate (sometimes simple and lanceolate); pinnae 
2-4-jugate, 10-15 cm long, 1.6-2.5 cm broad, lanceolate, long-acuminate, base subequal, 
short-attenuate on petiole about 5 mm long, margin remotely incise-serrate above base 
and below long-acuminate entire apex; texture soft herbaceous, pale green, with a few 
small scales on the under side; costa prominent on both sides; veins quite distinct, mostly 
forked, veinlets oblique, parallel, extending to some way below leaf-margin; sori straight, 
oblique, about 8 mm long, borne on the anterior veinlet of each group, extending from 
costa to one-third way from margin, indusium gray, linear, entire, persistent. 
Hainan Island: Ng Chi Leng, F. A. McClure 8406, 8554; Katsumada 6687 ex 
Herb. Hongkong; W.Y. Chun 6624 in Herb. Univ. Nanking; Eryl Smith 1429; Sha Po 
Leng, W. T. Tsang 16185. Kwangtung: .Sunyi, Sick Toun, C. Wang 2082 in moist 
place in revine. 
Formosa: Urai, Faurie 669 (type), 159; Taihoku, S. Sasaki 215295; Y. Shemada 
114 (1915). 
Annam: Thue-Lui, Cadier 100, 161; Chevalier 38, 718. 
Tonkin: Bullet 7727. 
This distinct species is closely related to A. Wightianum Wall. from S. India and 
Ceylon, differs in fewer and broader pinne with subequal base and only a few remote 
incisions on the margin below the entire long-acuminate apex. 
Plate 175. Fig. 1. Habit sketch, (natural size). 2. Portion of pinnae, showing venation and 
serrature (x 4). 3. Scale from base of stipe (x 16). 4. Scale from under side of pinne (x 20). 
