中华茯蕨 zhong hua fu jue

Plants 16-23 cm tall. Rhizomes short and erect, including stipe bases with sparse reddish brown ovate-lanceolate hairy scales and grayish white unicellular acicular long hairs. Fronds clustered; stipes 5-7 cm, slender, deep stramineous; laminae oblong-ovate, 11-16 × 5-7 cm, not tapering to bases, 1-pinnate, apices pinnatifid-acuminate; pinnae 7-14 pairs, alternate, proximal pair not shortened, sessile, second pair and more distal pairs ± adnate to rachis; middle pinnae broadly lanceolate, 2.6-4 × ca. 1 cm, acroscopic bases truncate, basiscopic bases rounded, pinnatifid to 1/2 distance to costae, apices shortly acuminate; segments 7-11 pairs, oblong, entire, separated by obtriangular-sinuses. Veins evident, 4 or 5 pairs per segments, proximal pair arising above base of costules, acroscopic vein reaching sinuses. Laminae herbaceous, when dry dark green, both surfaces with dense acicular hairs on intercostal areas, except with acicular hairs along costae and veins. Sori linear, attached along veinlets, 2 or 3 pairs per segment, free from each other. Sporangia each with 2 or 3 setae near top.

● In shade and on wet rocks in forested ravines; ca. 800 m. Guizhou, Hunan.