厚毛节肢蕨 hou mao jie zhi jue

Rhizome ca. 4 mm in diam., densely scaly throughout; scales brown at center, with pale or whitish margin, lanceolate, broad at base, 6-7 mm, margin toothed, apex long caudate. Stipe dark stramineous, 15-20 cm, glabrous; lamina imparipinnate, 20-30 × 10-15 cm, or simple and ovate to oblong; pinnae usually 1 or 2 pairs, opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 10-12 × 3-4 cm, base rounded or cordate, overlapping rachis, margin entire, apex caudate or rarely laciniate; lamina herbaceous, abaxially tomentose, adaxially glabrous. Sori orbicular, mostly in 3 or 4(or 5) rows along costa, in 2 series between lateral veins.

● Epiphytic on tree trunks; ca. 2600 m. Yunnan.

Fraser-Jenkins (Taxon. Revis. Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes, 60. 2008) believes that Arthromeris tomentosa is not separable from A. himalayensis.