3b. Pogonatum cirratum(Sw.) Brid. subsp. fuscatum(Mitt.) Hyvönen 刺边小金发藓褐色亚种 ci bian xiao jin fa xian he se ya zhong
Acta Bot. Fenn. 138: 32. 1989. Pogonatum fuscatum Mitt., J. Linn. Soc., Bot., Suppl. 1: 154. Type: India. Khasia, Hooker & Thomson 1203.
Neopogonatum tibeticum W.-X. Xu & R.-L. Xiong, ActaBot. Yunnan. 6(2): 177. f. 3. 1984. Type: China. Xizang: Cha-yu Co., S.-G. Wu 1086 (holotype YUKU).
Pogonatum flexicaule Mitt., J. Linn. Soc., Bot., Suppl. 1: 152. 1859.
Pogonatum kweitschouense Broth., Symb. Sin. 4: 133. 1929. Type: China. Guizhou: Mt. Nandjing Schan, Handel-Mazzetti 10983 (holotype H).
Pogonatum spurio-cirratum Broth., Philipp. J. Sci. 5: 150. 1910.
Pogonatum spurio-cirratum Broth. var. pumilum Reim., Hedwigia 71: 74. 1931. Type: China. Guangxi: Yao-shan Co., Sin & Whang 715 (holotype B).
Pogonatum spurio-cirratum Broth. fo. hemisphaericum Reim., Hedwigia 71: 74. 1931. Type: China. Guangxi: Yao-shan Co., Sin 3647, 8112 (syntypes B)
Besides the plant and leaf sizes that are smaller than subsp. cirratum, the leaves of subsp. fuscatum are strongly crisped with incurved leaf margins when dry, the leaf lamellae are sometimes up to 4 cells high with apical cells not in pairs, and the leaf margins are typically unistratose.