川西金毛裸蕨 chuan xi jin mao luo jue

Rhizomes decumbent, short, stout, densely scaly; scales brown or dark brown, shiny, narrowly subulate. Fronds closely spaced; stipe densely pale brown sericeous when young; lamina adaxially brownish green, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate or ovate, soft leathery when dry, abaxially densely sericeous, adaxially sparsely sericeous, 1- or 2-imparipinnate; rachis and costae sericeous. Pinnae long stalked. Ultimate pinnules ovate or narrowly ovate, base cordate, margins entire or with 1 or 2 small segments, apex obtuse. Veins obscure. Sori covered with hairs.

● Rock cliffs, rock crevices by ditches, on rocks beneath shrubs or woods; 800-3600 m. Gansu, Hebei, Henan, W Hubei, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan.

Lower Taxa

• Paragymnopteris bipinnata var. auriculata (Franchet) K. H. Shing
• Paragymnopteris bipinnata var. bipinnata