Coniogramme emeiensis Ching & K.H.Shing

Plants up to 1.5 m tall. Rhizomes decumbent, short, stout; scales dark brown, lanceolate. Fronds closely spaced; stipe straw-colored to chestnut-brown, 40-90 cm × 4-5 mm; lamina broadly ovate-oblong, 30-70 × 20-40 cm, 2-pinnate, herbaceous when dry, sometimes with irregular yellow stripes along veins, both surfaces glabrous. Pinnae 6-10 pairs, basal 1-3 pairs of pinnae largest, subovate or ovate-lanceolate, 15-35 × 10-20 cm, stalked, pinnate; upper pairs trifoliolate or simple. Pinnules broadly lanceolate, 7-15 × 1.5-3 cm, base cuneate or rounded-cuneate, margin with coarse teeth, apex caudate-acuminate or long acuminate. Veins 1-or 2-forked; hydathodes clavate, extending to base of teeth but not into teeth.

It is a tropical and subtropical plant. It grows in broad-leaved forests and shady places between 600-1,800 m above sea level.

The starch in the rhizome is used to make noodles.

Can be grown by divisions.