ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 213 
ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-JUNONIS : Ruprecht 
ADIANTACE: 
ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-JUNONIS Ruprecht, Distr. Crypt. Vasc. Ross. 49. 1845; Milde in Bot. Zeit. 
1867: 148; Fil. Europ. Alt. 29. 1867; Hook & Bak. Syn. Fil. 114. 1874; Franch. Plant. David. 1: 348. 
1884; Diels in Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: iv. 283. 1899; in Bot. Jahrb. 29: 200. 1900; Christ 
in Warb. Monsunia 67. 1900; in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 52: Mém. I. 61. 1905; C. Chr. Ind. Fil.‘ 24. 
1905; in Acta Hort. Gotheb. 1: 93. 1924; Matsum. et Hayata, Enum. Pl. Form. 612: 1906; Dunn & 
Tutcher, Fl. Kwangt. and Hongk. 338. 1912; Hand-Mzt. Symb. Sin. 6: 38. 1929; Tagawa in Acta 
Phytotax. et Geobot. 1: 101. 311. 1932; in Journ. Jap. 14: 312. 1938; Kitagawa in Rep. Ist. Sci. Exped. 
Manch. 4: 87. 1935; Kitagawa, Lineamenta Fl. Mansh. 26. 1939; Ching in Acta Phytotax. Sinica 6: 
317, 1957. 
Adiantum cantoniense Hance in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. 4. 15: 129. 1861; Hook. & Bak. Syn. Fil. 114. 1867. 
Rhizome short, erect, densely radicose below, crowned with dark brown lanceolate scales; fronds fas- 
ciculate, numerous together, spreading and mostly creeping, stipe 2-6 cm long, wiry, polished, blackish, 
glabrous, lamina 8-15 cm long, 2-3 cm broad, broadly lanceolate, simply pinnate with a terminal pinna, 
or more often prolongated into a whip-like stolon and rooting at the apex; pinnae 3-7 pairs, distant, opposite 
or generally alternate, petiolate (petiole 3 mm long), 1-1.5 cm long, and as broad or broader, suborbicular, 
or flabellate, base cuneate or subrounded, the outer edge broadly rounded, entire or slightly and broadly 
lobed, minutely denticulate, the upper pinnae smaller, fan-shaped, the stolons bear a few distant similar 
pinnae below; ¢exture pellucido-herbaceous, glabrous, light tender green above, bluish-green below; veins 
fine, repeatedly forked with distinct veinlets, one to each denticule; sori usually 2-5 round the outer edge, 
roundish, transversely oblong, or linear, separated by a notch, indusium dark brown, firm. 
A very pretty and shade-loving fern in dense patches on shaded moist limestone or calcareous soil. 
One of the common ferns in China, ranging from the Provinces of Hopei, Shantung, Honan, Kansu, 
Szechuan, Hupeh, Kweichow down to Yunnan, Kwangsi, Kwangtung and Taiwan. 
Also Japan and Korea. Type from the mountains around Peking. 
Plate 213. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Pinna, fertile (X 3). 3. Pinna, sterile (X 3). 4. Scale from 
the base of stipe (X 40). 5-6. Sporangium with spores (X 100). 
