ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 232 
STEGNOGRAMMA ASPLENIOIDES J. Smith 
THELYPTERIDACE 
STEGNOGRAMMA ASPLENIOIDES J. Smith apud Ching, Gen. Stegn. and Lept. in Sinensia 7: 
94 t. 2. 1936, . 
Gymnogramma aspidioides Hook. Sp. Fil. 5: 150. 1864; Hook. & Bak. Syn. Fil. 378. 1867; Clarke in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. II. Bot. 1: 569. 1880 (pro parte). 
Dryopteris stegnogramma C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 294. 1905 (pro parte). 
Dryopteris stegnogramma var. asplenioides C. Chr. in Acta Hort. Gotheb. 1: 56. 1924. 
Rhizome obliquely ascending or short-creeping, densely clothed in the old basal parts of the stipes of 
previous years; fronds fasciculate, stipe 20 cm or longer, dark stramineous, copiously clothed in the lower 
part in both dark brown lanceolate setose scales and the spreading needle-like long gray hairs, almost sub- 
glabrous or sparsely hirsute upwards, lamina 40: cm or longer, about 12 cm broad, oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, hardly narrowed towards the base, simply pinnate under the pinnatifid apical part; pinnae 
about 10 pairs, of which the lower 5-8 pairs free and sessile, the upper ones slightly adnate, patent, alternate, 
separated by rather broad sinuses, 5-7 cm long, or longer, the basal ones not or slightly shortened, 1.4-2 cm 
broad, broad-lanceolate, rather short-acuminate, base equally oblique, roundish, pinnatisect about one-third 
way or less down into 10-13 pairs of broad, rounded, oblique lobes, the upper pinnae only lobato-crenate; 
texture thickly herbaceous, opaque green, hairy along the rachis and on both sides of pinnae with needle- 
like hairs; veins in lobes 4-6 pairs, simple, obliquely ascending and curved, the lower 2 pairs (or sometimes only 
I pair) of the opposite groups jointed below the sinus with excurrent veinlets running straight to the sinus; 
sori linear, curved along several pairs of lower veins with the lowest pair often jointed or even run up a 
short way along the excurrent veinlet, sporangia setose with 4 or more erect needle-like long unicellular 
hairs, 
Szechuan: Ta-shiang-ling, Harry Smith 2116, in thickets, alt. 2400 m. Yunnan: Kong-shan Hsien, 
Chonmutong, K. M. Feng 7578, alt. 2300 m., common; Yang-pie Hsien, R. C. Ching 22483, in thickets. 
Khasia: Griffith (type); Hooker et Thomson, 5-6000 ft. alt, Assam: Shillong Wood, C. B. Clarke 
37345, February, 1885. 
This species is very different from the Javanese S. aspidioides Bl. in many essential characters as was 
already pointed out by me long ago (lc.). From that species it can be easily distinguished by much larger 
size, much longer and pinnatisect or lobato-crenate pinnae, generally 2 pairs of anastomosed veins and by 
the costa below provided with spreading needle-like long hairs. 
Plate 232. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Portion of pinna, showing venation and sori (X 3). 3. Scale 
from the basal part of stipe (X 40). 4. Hairs from stipe (X 40). 5-6. Sporangium with spores (X 100). 
