针毛新月蕨 zhen mao xin yue jue

Plants 60-100 cm tall. Rhizomes long creeping, with sparse ovate-lanceolate brown scales. Fronds remote; stipes 25-70 cm, sparsely brown scaly at bases, stramineous; laminae lanceolate, 30-50 × 15-30 cm, 1-imparipinnate; lateral pinnae 4-8 pairs, alternate, sessile, proximal pair reduced; middle pinnae oblong-lanceolate, 10-25 × 2-5 cm, bases rounded-cuneate, margins entire or slightly undulate, apices acuminate; terminal pinna much larger than lateral ones, ovate-lanceolate, 15-25(-30) × 2.5-5.5(-6.5) cm, stalk 1-4 cm, bases not symmetrical and slightly decurrent on one lateral side, rounded-cuneate, margins undulate or crenate, apices long acuminate. Veins evident abaxially, costules thick and raised, veinlets obliquely spreading and parallel to each other, veinlets obliquely spreading, proximal pair joining into triangular areoles between veinlets, distally every pair joining into areoles, excurrent veinlet not reaching joining point of above pair, with dense short setae along veins. Laminae papery or herbaceous when dry, dark green, reddish, or dark red, veins reddish abaxially, rachises, costae, and veins and abaxial intercostal areas all with dense acicular hairs, abaxial surface with sparse short setae along costae and veins, with 1 or 2 occasional setae on intercostal areas. Sori orbicular, attached on middle or above middle part of veinlets, not confluent when mature, exindusiate.

● Gregarious on shaded wet precipitous slopes, wetlands by rivers, marshlands. Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Yunnan.