金佛山茯蕨 jin fo shan fu jue

Plants 30-35 cm tall. Rhizomes ascending. Fronds clustered; stipes ca. 22 cm, stramineous, with dense grayish white lanceolate acicular hairs; laminae lanceolate, ca. 30 × 8-18 cm, 1-pinnate, pinnatifid-acuminate at apices; free-pinnae 3-7 pairs, sessile, truncate, proximal pair of similar shape and size as distal ones, bases slightly tapering, apices caudate; middle pinnae lanceolate, 7-8 × ca. 1.5 cm, truncate at bases, pinnatifid to 1/2-2/3 of distance to costae, long caudate at apices; segments rectangular, with acicular hairs on intercostal areas of both surfaces, with dense acicular setae along rachises and veins, entire, rounded at apices. Veins evident, veinlets reaching margins above sinuses, 4 or 5 pairs per segment. Laminae herbaceous, when dry yellowish green, all with acicular hairs on both surfaces. Sori ovate, attached near bases of veinlets. Sporangia each with 2-4 acicular hairs near top.

● On wet rocks in broad-leaved forests; ca. 1800 m. Chongqing (Nanchuan).