华南舌蕨 hua nan she jue

Acrostichum yoshinagae Yatabe, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 5: 109. 1891; A. austrosinicum (C. G. Matthew & Christ) Tutcher; Elaphoglossum austrosinicum C. G. Matthew & Christ; E. parvum Copeland.

Rhizomes shortly creeping, stout, densely scaly; scales brown, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, membranous, margin ciliate, apex acuminate or acute. Fronds close together; sterile fronds 15-45 cm overall, stipe almost absent or short, 5-8 cm; lamina elliptic, 10-30 × [1.5-]3-4.5 cm, leathery, brown when dry, with sparse, small, brown, stellate scales, base cuneate, decurrent nearly to base of stipe, margin entire, thickened and slightly reflexed, apex acute; midrib broad, flat abaxially, secondary veins simple or once forked; fertile fronds: stipe 7-10 cm, lamina somewhat narrower.

On moss-covered rocks or tree trunks; 300-1800 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan [Japan].