ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 89 
NEOCHEIROPTERIS PHYLLOMANES (Christ) Ching 
“POLYPODIACEAE | 
NEOCHEIROPTERIS PHYLLOMANES (Christ) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4: 110 
(1933): : 
Polypodium phyllomanes Christ, Bull. Acad. Géogr. Bot. (1902) 210 c. fig.; C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 
553 (1906). 
Polypodium ovatum Wall. (non Burm. 1708) Hooker et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 41 (1827); Takeda, 
Notes, R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 8: 289 (1915). 
Pleopeltis ovata Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. pl. 157 (1866); Handb. Ferns Brit. Ind. 354 (1883). 
Polypodium ensatum Diels (non Thunberg) in Engl. Jahrb. 29: 203 (1901); Hayata, Ic. Pl. 
Form. 5: 312 (1915). ae 
Rhizome wide-creeping, subhypogaeous, rather thick, densely scaly; scales 
fusco-brown, clathrate, ovate, acuminate; frond far apart, erect, stipe 10-17 cm long or 
longer, obscurely blackish and rather densely, fibrillose-scaly, particularly, on the lower 
part, lamina ovate-oblong, acuminate, 13-23 cm long, 7-12 cm broad at base, which is 
subtruncate, or rotundo-cuneate, or sometimes cuneate, margin entire (f. typica), or 
provided with one or two broadly short lanceolate lobes at base (f. deltoidea), or not 
infrequently copiously laciniato-lobed with basal lobes again divided on both sides (f. 
doryopteris); texture firm, thickly chartaceous, color light green, glabrous above, more or 
less scaly underneath; lateral main veins distinct nearly to the margin, patent, nearly 1 
cm apart, straight, but in lobed forms often looped at base; intervening veinlets rather 
obscure, copiously anastomosing with divaricating included, clavate veinlets; sori large, 
dark-brown, globose, irregularly multiseriate on each side of costa or sometimes 
subuniseriate, especially, towards apex, clothed when young with fuscous, clathrate, 
peltate scales as in Lepisorus. 
A common fern in Yunnan,'Szechuan, Kweichow, Kwangtung and eastwardly to 
the provinces Anwhei and Chekiang; also recently known in Kiangsu (I-shing, leg. C. Y. 
Luh n. 462). It is also found abundant in the Himalayas and in the island Formosa. 
Very variable in the outline of lamina as very well illustrated by Christ (I.c.), and 
in some extreme forms it differs little from N. ensata (Polypodium ensatum Thunberg), 
with which it has often been confused. 
Plate 89. Fig. 1a habit sketch (natural size). lb. forma deltotdea (natural size). 1c. forma 
doryopteris (x4). 2. portion of a frond, showing venation and position of sori (X2). 3. scale from 
rhizome (X30). 4. peltate paraphyses from a sorus (X50). 5. scales from underside of a frond (X50). 
6. scale from a stipe (50). 7. cross section of a rhizome, showing perforated type of steles (X10). 
