惠水茯蕨 hui shui fu jue

Plants to 33 cm tall. Rhizomes not seen. Stipes 10-13 cm, dark brown, bases with sparse brown lanceolate scales, distally with dense grayish white acicular long hairs; laminae lanceolate, 12-25 × 5-10 cm, slightly tapering to bases, pinnate-pinnatifid, pinnatifid-acuminate at apices; lateral free pinnae 7-9 pairs, sessile, distal pinnae adnate to rachises, proximal pair of similar shape and size as distal ones; middle pinnae lanceolate, ca. 5 cm, truncate at bases, pinnatifid to 1/2 of distance to costae, acuminate at apices; segments ca. 12 pairs per pinna, oblong, entire, separated from each other by obtriangular sinuses, obtuse at apices. Laminae somewhat leathery, when dry dark brown, rachises, costae, and veinlets with dense acicular hairs abaxially, adaxial sides with short setae, abaxially with sparse short setae on intercostal areas. Sori narrowly ovate, attached on middle to proximal parts along veinlets. Sporangia each with more than 3 setae near top.

● Guizhou (Huishui).