<i>Dryopteris melanocarpa</i> (Dryopteridaceae), a new record of a fern species among the Korean flora of Jejudo Island

<i>Dryopteris melanocarpa</i> Hayata is an unrecorded perennial monilophyte species in Korea that belongs to the genus <i>Dryopteris</i> of Dryopteridaceae. It was initially found to grow wild in a cave on Daerok Mountain, Jejudo Island and has been known to grow spontaneously only in Taiwan and Japan thus far. This species is morphologically very similar to <i>D. sparsa</i> (D. Don) Kuntze and <i>D. subexaltata</i> (Christ) C. Chr. However, <i>D. melanocarpa</i> is distinguished from those related taxa in that the stipe scale shape is broadly lanceolate and its lamina is triangularly lanceolate and herbaceous. In this study, in order to identify the <i>D. melanocarpa</i>, which was found on Jejudo Island, morphological and molecular analyses were conducted.