广西假毛蕨 guang xi jia mao jue

Plants ca. 60 cm tall. Rhizomes not seen. Stipes ca. 8.5 cm, deep stramineous, bases sparsely scaly, distally densely acicular hairy; laminae narrowly lanceolate, ca. 50 × 10 cm, proximal 4 or 5 pairs of pinnae gradually reduced and hastate; middle normal pinnae ca. 25 pairs, alternate, extremely oblique distally, sessile, pinnate-pinnatifid; middle pinnae narrowly lanceolate, ca. 7 × 1 cm, pinnatifid nearly to costae; segments ca. 18 pairs, acroscopic one of basal pair of pinnae slightly elongated, ca. 6 mm, others ca. 4 × 2 mm, bent, entire, acuminate at apices. Costules raised on both sides, veinlets not evident, 5 or 6 pairs per segment. Laminae dark green when dry, papery; rachises, costae, and veinlets all with dense long acicular hairs abaxially, adaxially densely setaceous along costal grooves, costules occasionally with 1 or 2 setae, finely hairy on intercostal areas abaxially. Sori orbicular, attached on middle of veinlets; indusia orbicular-reniform, papery, brown, persistent, acicular hairy.

● On shaded rocks by streamsides; ca. 300 m. Guangxi (Fusui).