武夷山鳞毛蕨 wu yi shan lin mao jue

Plants up to 1 m tall. Stipe pale brown or stramineous, ca. 44 cm, ca. 2 mm in diam., base sparsely clothed with lanceolate, dark brown scales; lamina oblong-lanceolate, ca. 59 × 24 cm, once pinnate, not narrowed to base; pinnae ca. 25 pairs, spreading, approximate, subsessile, middle pinnae lanceolate, ca. 11 × 1.7 cm, base rounded, margin pinnatifid, apex caudate, basal pinnae not shortened. Lamina papery, glabrous; rachis sparsely clothed with linear, black scales; lateral veins 4 or 5, simple, basal pair ending short of margin. Sori in 2 irregular rows on each side of costa; indusia brown, orbicular-reniform, thin, fugacious.

● Forests. Fujian (Wuyi Shan).