29a. Selliguea ebenipes var. ebenipes
黑鳞假瘤蕨(原变种) hei lin jia liu jue (yuan bian zhong)
Polypodium ebenipes Hooker, Sp. Fil. 5: 88. 1864; Crypsinus ebenipes (Hooker) Copeland; C. ebenipes var. subebenipes (Ching) K. Iwatsuki et al.; C. nepalensis Nakaike; Phymatodes ebenipes (Hooker) Ching; Phymatopsis ebenipes (Hooker) J. Smith; P. subebenipes Ching; Phymatopteris ebenipes (Hooker) Pichi Sermolli; P. nepalensis (Nakaike) Subh. Chandra; P. subebenipes (Ching) Pichi Sermolli; Pichisermollia ebenipes (Hooker) Fraser-Jenkins; P. subebenipes (Ching) Fraser-Jenkins; Pichisermollodes ebenipes (Hooker) Fraser-Jenkins; P. subebenipes (Ching) Fraser-Jenkins; Pleopeltis ebenipes (Hooker) Beddome.
Rachis and costae glabrous.
Terrestrial or epiphytic on tree trunks or on rocks; 1900-3200 m. Hunan, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, Thailand].
Fraser-Jenkins (Taxon. Revis. Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes, 49. 2008) treated Phymatopsis subebenipes as a distinct species (Pichisermollia subebenipes), including within it Polypodium ebenipes var. oakesii below.