Takimishida - Takimishida

Japanese: タキミシダ - たきみしだ

A perennial plant of the fern family Pterygotae with shoehorn-shaped leaves (illustration). When Tomitaro Makino was visiting the Tarunotaki waterfall in Kamibun, Susaki City, Kochi Prefecture, he found this plant growing on a rock, hence the name. Evergreen. The rhizome is short, lanceolate, and has brown scales. The leaves grow in clusters of several leaves, and are stalk-like. The leaf blade is oblong, wedge-shaped at the base, blunt or acute at the tip, and thick. The veins are reticulate. The sporangia are found in slightly concave grooves that run long above the veins, forming a reticulate shape and intermingling with lateral threads. It is distributed in Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu west of Chiba and Toyama Prefectures, and rarely grows on rocks under forests near rivers.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

靴べら状の葉をつけたシダ植物シシラン科の多年草（イラスト）。牧野富太郎が高知県須崎市上分の樽ノ滝を見物した時，岩上に着生しているのを見つけたので，その名がついた。常緑性。根茎は短く斜上し，披針形で茶色の鱗片をつける。葉は数枚束生し，有柄。葉身は長楕円形，基部はくさび形，先端は鈍頭または鋭頭，質は厚い。葉脈は網状。胞子囊群は葉脈の上を長くのびるややくぼんだ溝の中にあり，網目状になり，側糸がまざる。千葉･富山県以西の本州，四国，九州に分布し，川に近い林下の岩上にまれに生じる。

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