- Scientific Name: Cibotium barometz (L.) J.Sm.
- Ref: London J. Bot. 1:437. 1842
- Synonyms:
- Balantium glaucescens (Kunze) Link
- Cibotium assamicum Hook.
- C. baranetz Christ
- C. djambianum Hassk.
- C. glaucescens Kunze
- C. glaucophyllum C.Presl
- Dicksonia assamica (Hook.) Griff.
- D. barometz (L.) Link
- Aspidium barometz (L.) Willd.
- Nephrodium barometz (L.) Sweet
- Polypodium barometz L.
- English Common Name: golden chicken fern, woolly fern
- Chinese Common Name: 金毛狗蕨 jīnmáo∙gǒu jué, 金毛狗 jīnmáo∙gǒu
- Japanese Common Name: タカワラビ [高蕨] takawarabi
- Family: Cyatheaceae
- Genus: Cibotium
- Distribution: Open places in forests, forest margins, valleys, warm humid environments; (below 100-)200-600(-1600) m. Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, C Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [NE India, Indonesia (Java to Sumatra), Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Malaysia (W Peninsular), Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam].
- Photo: 05/01/2017
Rhizome prostrate, stout, densely covered with shiny brown long hairs. Stipes thick, up to 1 m or more, triangular in transverse section at base, with dense caducous appressed hairs, stipe and rachis green, turning purplish abaxially with age, stipe with a continuous or broken row of linear aerophores on each side, base with a mass of long (1-1.5 cm) hairs, upper part of stipe and rachis covered with small, appressed flaccid hairs becoming glabrescent; lamina 2-pinnate-pinnatifid, 1.5-3 m; medial pinnae 40-80 × 15-30 cm, lower pinnae shortened, deflexed; pinnae many, alternate, stalked, pinnules shortly stalked, usually of ± equal length on either side of rachilla; pinnule segments slightly falcate, apiculate, margins crenulate to serrulate-serrate; veins free, fertile ones simple, sterile simple or forked; lamina subleathery, adaxial surface deep green, abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous on both sides, except hairy on midrib; venation visible on both surfaces, free, lateral veins simple or forked. Sori usually 1-5 at base of lower pairs of pinnule segments; indusia bivalvate, outer indusia orbicular, inner ones ± oblong; outer valve of indusium usually large; paraphyses dark reddish brown. Spores pale yellowish, with equatorial flange. (Flora of China)
