ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 214 
ADIANTUM PHILIPPENSE Linné 
ADIANTACE 
ADIANTUM PHILIPPENSE Linné Sp. Pl. 2: 1094. 1753; Sw. Syn. Fil. 120 1806; Hook. Sp. Fil. 2: 3. 
1861; Copel. Polyp. Phil. 93. 1905; C. Chr. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26; 310. 1931; Ind. Fil. Suppl. 
III. 19. 1933; Tagawa in Journ. Jap. Bot. 14; 310. 1938; Tard. et C. Chr. in Fl. Gen. Ind. 7: 182. 1940; 
Ching in Acta Phytotax. Sinica 6; 318. 1957. 
Adiantum lunulatum Bucm. FI. Tne 36: 1768; Sw. Syn. Fil. 120. 1806; Hook. and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 104. 
1831; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 446. 1861; Hook. & Bak. Syn. Fil. 114.1867; Milde, Fil. Europ. Alt. 28. 
1867; Bedd. Ferns South. Ind. t. 1. 1863: Handb. Ferns Brit. Ind. 82. 1883; Diels in Engl. u. Prantl, 
Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: iv. 283. 1899. GC. Chr. Ind. Fil. 29. 1905; v. A. v. R. Handb. Mal. Ferns 325. 
1908; Dunn & Tutcher, Fl. Kwangt. and Hongk. 338. 1912; Hand—Mzt. Bua Sin. 6: 38.1929; Ogata, 
Ic. Fil Jap. 5:-t. 204. 1933. 
Pieris lunulata Retz. Obs. 2: 28, t. 4. 1761. 
Rhizome short, erect, sparsely crowned at the apex with dark brown narrowly lanceolate scales; fronds 
fasciculate, spreading, or nodding, stipe 10-15 cm long, polished, dark chestnut-brown, glabrous above the 
base, lamina 12-30 cm or longer, 4-8 cm broad, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, impari-pinnate, or often 
elongated and rooting at the tip of a wiry stolon; pinnae 7-12 pairs, spread, close, 15-4 cm long, 1-2 cm 
broad, semi-orbicular, or lunate, subdimidiate, the lower edge cut nearly in a straight line or slightly oblique 
with the petiole, the upper edge rounded and, like the bluntly-rouned outer edge, usually with a few 
remote incisions, or more or less lobed, not serrate, petioles of the lower pinnae 1-1.5 cm long, wiry, almost 
form a right angle with the rachis, attached by an articulation to the pinnae at about one-third way from 
the inner edge; the terminal pinna (if present) flabellate, cuneate, as large as, or larger than the lower 
ones; the whip-like stolon usually bears a few distant small pinnae below; texture papyraceo-herbaceous, 
the rachis and surfaces glabrous; veins distinct below; sori in a continuous line along the upper edge, only 
interrupted by a few narrow notches. 
Widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Australia and Africa. In China, this 
fern has been known from Yunnan, Szechuan (Mt. Omei), Kweichow, Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Hainan, 
Taiwan and Hongkong, prefering a shaded position and forming large patches in acid soil. 
A very distinct species, not easily to be confounded with other related species by dint of its peculiarly 
shaped pinnae, which, however, vary a great deal in size and depth of incision along the upper margin. 
Plate 214. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Fertile pinna (X 2). 3. Sterile pinna (X 2). 4. Scale from 
the base of stipe (X 40). 5-6. Sporangium with spores (X 100). 
