黑鳞耳蕨系 hei lin er jue xi

Plants medium-sized, evergreen. Lamina green, broadly lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, papery, not gradually contracted toward base. Stipe greenish when dry. Stipe scales bicolorous, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or broadly lanceolate. Rachis scales linear, subulate, or lanceolate. Pinnules of upper pinnae auriculate. Microscales short-type.

About 17 species: Sino-Himalayan and Sino-Japanese regions; 11 species (five endemic) in China.