English: Black lady fern.
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Synonyms: Asplenium japonicum; Athyriopsis japonica; Athyrium japonicum; Diplazium japonicum.
Region: Japan; himalayas, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, eastern Siberia.
Habitat: woodland, lowlands, foothills.
BotanyFern.
Root: rhizome short-creeping, branching, scaly.
Leaves: deciduous; somewhat dimorphic; fertile ones taller, narrower, more erect, blade/stipe ratio.
Stipe: green or straw-clored. shallowly grooved above. swollen or not at base. densely scaly at base, upwards along with rachises scaly and multicellular-hairs. vascular bundles: 2, lunate.
Blade: 1-pinnate-pinnatifid, oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowed toward acuminate apex, sometimes slightly narrowed toward base, herbaceous, multi-cellular hairs along costae, rachis.
Pinnae: 12 to 16 pair, linear to linear-lanceolate, to 12 cm long, 2.5 cm broad, halfway or deeply pinnatifid; costae grooved above, discontinuous with the rachis; margins serrate or lobed, blunt or acute at the tip; veins free.
Sori: elongate, ± straight, or hooked at distal end, to 5 mm long, on veins, arranged generally in a herringbone pattern, indusium: linear, persistent, sinus, brown, sporangia: brownish.