近暗鳞鳞毛蕨 jin an lin lin mao jue

Plants 30-50 cm tall. Rhizome erect-ascendant, short, densely scaly. Fronds caespitose; stipe stramineous, 25-30 cm, firm, densely scaly; scales fuscous-brown, broadly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, ca. 1.5 cm, margin ciliate or entire, upper ones linear to filiform; lamina lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 30-50 × 10-17 cm, once pinnate, widest at middle, base slightly attenuate, apex acuminate to attenuate; pinnae 25-30 pairs, linear, falcate, base cordate-truncate, slightly auriculate, sessile, margin coarsely serrate-dentate, apex acuminate or acute, rarely obtuse, lower pinnae 5-10 × 1-10 cm, pinnatifid, cut 1/3-1/2 to costa; segments obliquely ovate, ca. 3 mm, slightly serrulate, apex subtruncate. Lamina subleathery, glabrous adaxially; rachis sparsely clothed with linear, brown or fuscous-brown, ciliate scales; veins simple. Sori in 2 or 3 rows on each side of costa; indusia orbicular-reniform, entire, membranous, persistent.

● Forests, steep rocky slopes; 1600-2100 m. C and NC Taiwan.