栗色车前蕨 li se che qian jue

Rhizome short erect or shortly creeping; scales dark brown, linear-lanceolate, 3-8 mm, apex long acuminate, bristlelike, margin entire, clathrate. Fronds clustered; stipe 5-10 cm, base covered with scales like those on rhizome, upward with scales, gradually glabrous; lamina leathery, oblanceolate, 10-20 × 1-3 cm, widest above middle, apex acute, base attenuate along stipe; costa absent; veins abundantly reticulate. Soral lines slightly immersed, netted or parallel; paraphyses club-shaped with a capitate head. Spores trilete, tetrahedral-globose, surface papillate.

● 1500-1900 m. Taiwan.