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The "Fumoto-kaguma" (Microlepia pseudostrigosa) belongs to Dennstaediaceae (the Bracken family). It is an evergreen fern that is distributed from the southern Kanto region to the Tokai region in Honshu, the Izu Islands in Japan, as well as the Korean Peninsula, China and Vietnam. It grows in the forests of mountains and is 70 to 110 cm tall. The leaves are bipinnate compound, dark yellow-green to green in color, and thick and grassy. There are 30 to 35 pairs of lateral pinnae. The base of the leaf stalk is densely covered in light brown hairs. The sorus is attached near the margin of the lobes, and is round to elliptic, with a brown, round to kidney-shaped indisum. In Chinese, it is called "假粗毛鱗蓋蕨" (jia cu mao lin gai jue).
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