ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 62 
LEPISORUS MACROSPHAERUS (Baker) Ching 
-POLYPODIACEAE 
LEPISORUS MACROSPHAERUS (Baker) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4: 73, (1933). 
Polypodium macrosphaerum Beker, Kew Bull. (1895) 55; Christ, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 52: 
Mém. 1. 15 (1905); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 542 (1906); Takeda, Notes, R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 8: 
283 (1915); C. Chr. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26: 319 (1931). 
Polypodium intramarginale Baker; Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2. 3: 509 (1903); Baker, Kew 
Bull. (1906) 13. 
Rhizome rather thick, creeping, epigaeous, naked, except the growing tip and the 
base of stipe, which both are sparcely scaly; scales brown, thin, concolorous, ovate, 
obtuse, dorsally affixed, margin entire, luminae medium-sized, uniform, clear, deciduous; 
frond rather distant, 30-50 cm long, to 3 cm broad, wingless stipe long, terete, naked, 
glabrous, or more often scaly underneath, when young; texture coriaceous, color greenish; 
venation prominent; sori large, oblong, intramarginal, or scmetimes some distance below 
the margin. 
Yunnan: Mengtze, Hancock 49 (type); A. Henry 10042A, 18129 18863; west of 
Tali, J. F. Rock 6869; between Tengyueh and Lungling, J. F. Rock 7108, 335; Tsekou, 
Ducloux 488, 186, 20, 1884. 955 (1908); Ta-hwa Shan, K. K. Tsoong 2991; Salween, 
Capt. Kingdon Ward, Jan. 1, 1924; prés Tapintze, Delavay 4358; Forrest 16195, 16219; 
between Tengyueh and Burmese border, J. F. Rock 7288; between Kambaiti and 
Tengyueh, J. ’. Rock 7588. Kweichow: Houang-tsao-pa, Cavalerie 7298: Kweiting, Y. 
Tsiang 5819; Tuyum, Y. Tsiang 5707; Paichai, Y. Tsiang 6128. Kwangsi: Lin Yin, 
Tsing-lung Shan, R. C. Ching 7002. Chekiang: Tien-mo Shan, S. S. Chien 49, 159 
(1929). Szechuan occid: Mapien, W. P. Fang 3961; O-shan, W. P. Fang 6664, 6672; 
Opien, W. P. Fang 7258. 
Himalaya: Khasia, C. B. Clarke 43627A. 
A very distinct species endemic in Central and West China, creeping over moss- 
clad but rather exposed cliffs, or on rocks in thickets. 
Plate 62. Fig. 1. habit sketch (natural size). 2. section of a lamina, showing venation and 
position of sori (x4). 3a-b. peltate paraphyses (x50). 4. scale from underside of a lamina (x50). 5. 
scale from rhizome (X50). 
