ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 110 
ATHYRIUM GORINGIANUM (Kunze) Moore 
POLYPODIACEA 
ATHYRIUM GORINGIANUM (Kunze) Moore, Ind. Fil. 185 (1860); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 143 
(1905): Ogata, Ic. Fil. Jap. 2: t. 58 (1929). 
Aspidium Géringianum Kunze, Bot. Zeit. (1848) 557. 
Lastrea Géringianum Moore, Ind. Fil. 93 (1858). 
Dryopteris Géringiana Koidz. Bot. Mag. Tokio 43: 382 (1929); Acta Phytotax. et Geobot. 1: 233 
f. 9-10 (1932). 
Athyrium filix-foemina Christ (non Roth, 1799) in Warburg, Monsunia 1: 75 (1900). 
Athyrium iseanum Ros. in Fedde, Repert. Sp. Nov. 13: 124 (1913); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. Suppl. II. 
7 (1916). 
Rhizome oblique; scales brown, thin, lanceolate; fronds cespitose, stipe 16-30 
cm long, pale straminous, glossy above the blackish scaly base, terete underneath, 
broadly flattened above, lamina oblong-ovate, 20-28 cm long, 12-16 cm broad, acu- 
minate, tripinnatifid; pinne 10-14-jugate, alternate, petiolate, obliquely patent, the 
basal ones somewhat shorter than those next above, 7-10 cm long, 3-4 cm broad, 
base cordate, apex acuminate; pinnules 8-11-jugate, shortly petiolulate, alternate, 
1.5-2 cm long, oblong, acute or bluntish, base subunequal, pinnatifid nearly down 
to costule into 4-6 oblong serrato-incised blunt segments, with one simple veinlet 
to each tooth; texture soft herbaceous, light green, rachis and rachilets are pro- 
vided with characteristic spines on the upper side; sori elongate or horse-shoe- 
shaped, indusium thin, grayish-brown, large; spores reniform, smooth. 
Chekiang: Ningpo, Tien-tai Shan, Hancock 12 (1877); C. Y. Chiao 14437; K. K. 
Tsoong 3718. Szechwan: Mt. Omei, W. P. Fang 2672, 3800 in herb. West China 
Acad. Sci. Yunnan: H. T. Tsai 52696. Fukien: Lin Fa Shan, S. 7. Dunn 8844, 
June 6, 1904. Kiangsi: Kiukiang, Lu-shan, Incense Mill, DeVol, Aug. 5, 1933: 
Kiangsu: Wusih, Wei-shan, R. C. Ching 3427. Kwangtung: Lohfau Shan, C. 0. 
Levine & McClure 6833, 6929; Levine 1518; Merrili 10344 (1916); Gerlach (without 
locality). 
Japan: Gdring 115 (type) (1844); Ise, Sakura 47 (type of A. iseanum). 
A native of Japan and Eastern China and was generally considered in the 
past as identical with A. nigripes (B1.), from which it differs in ampler frond as 
long as the stipe, incised or, at least, dentate-incised ultimate pinnules and not 
strictly costular sori. A still closer ally is A. strigillosum Moore from North-west- 
ern India and West China, which differs only in less divided frond and subcostular 
sori with uniform asplenioid indusium. 
Plate 110. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Pinnule, showing venation and types of in- 
dusia-(x 8). 3. Scale from the base of stipe (x 16). ; 
