新宁贯众 xin ning guan zhong

Plants 8-12 cm tall. Rhizome erect, densely covered with lanceolate brown scales. Stipe stramineous, 5-7 cm, ca. 1 mm in diam. at base, densely scaly; scales brown, ovate or lanceolate, margins dentate. Lamina ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 3-7 × 2.5-3 cm, 1-imparipinnate, apex acute; rachis with sparse lanceolate brown dentate scales. Lateral pinnae 1-4 pairs, alternate, spreading, shortly stalked, obliquely broadly ovate or flabellate, 1.2-1.6 × 1-1.2 cm, basiscopic margins broadly cuneate, acroscopic margins rounded, entire, apex rounded; terminal pinna deltoid-ovate, 1-1.5 × 1.2-1.5 cm leathery, glabrous on both surfaces; venation pinnate, indistinct on both surfaces, veinlets anastomosing to form 2 or 3 rows of areoles on each side of midrib. Sori in 1 or 2 irregular rows on each side of midrib or restricted to pinna margins; indusia margins subentire.

● Forests; ca. 1100 m. Hunan (Xinning).