ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 56 
ADIANTUM FABERI Baker 
POLY PODIACEAE 
ADIANTUM FABERI Baker, Journ. Bot. (1888) 225; Diels, Nat. Pfl. Fam. 1: 4. 284 
(1899); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 26 (905). 
Rhizome short, oblique, densely clothed at the base of stipe in linear-acuminate, 
dark chestnut-brown, lustrous, subentire, spreading scales; fronds caespitose, stipe 
wiry, naked, shining, castaneous,. 10-15. cm long; lamina ovate-oblong, tripinnate, 
12-15 cm long, 5-8 cm broad, firm, green, glabrous, lower pinnae ovate-oblong or 
deltoid, petiolate, ultimate pinnules orbicular, petiolulate, 0.3-0.7 cm broad, sometimes 
obscurely crenate on the upper margin of the sterile ones; veins distinct, free, flabellately 
branched, falling short from the narrowly cartilaginous margin; sori 1-2, or rarely 3, to 
each ultimate pinnule, small, globose, deeply indented on the upper margin, indusium 
orbicular, black, much smaller than that in A. monochlamys and curled-up at last. 
Szechuan: Mt. Omei, E. Faber 1083 (1887), 3,000 ft. alt. 
A rare fern, being collected only once in the locality. It is a close ally to 
A. Roborowskii Maxim. from Kansu, differs chiefly in much broader frond, larger 
orbicular ultimate pinnules each generally with 1-2 smaller sori and smaller black 
indusia. 
Plate 56. Fig. 1. habit sketch (natural size). 2. ultimate pinnule, showing venation and sori 
(x8). 3. scales from rhizome.( x50). 
