福贡假毛蕨 fu gong jia mao jue

Plants to 1.3 m tall. Rhizomes not seen. Stipes ca. 50 cm, dark brown, deep stramineous distally and glabrous; laminae broadly lanceolate, ca. 85 × 20 cm, abruptly tapering to bases, pinnatifid-acuminate at apices; proximal 2 pairs of pinnae reduced and hastate; middle normal pinnae ca. 30 pairs, alternate, spreading, sessile, pinnate-pinnatifid; middle pinnae lanceolate, 12-15 × ca. 1.5 cm, bases not narrowed, rounded-truncate, pinnatifid nearly to costae, apices long acuminate; segments ca. 25 pairs, lanceolate, ca. 7 × 3 mm, entire, acute at apices. Veins evident, costules raised on both sides, veinlets 8(or 9) pairs per segment, proximal pair arising from base of costules, acroscopic vein reaching bottom of sinus, basiscopic one reaching margin above sinus. Laminae dark green when dry, papery, abaxially along rachises, costae, veins, and intercostal areas all with long acicular hairs, adaxially along costal grooves with appressed setae, costae appressed shortly hairy, veinlets each with 1 or 2 setae, glabrous on intercostal areas. Sori orbicular, attached on middle of veinlets; indusia orbicular-reniform, thickly membranous, brown, densely shortly hairy, persistent.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests on mountain slopes; ca. 1800 m. Yunnan (Fugong).

Pseudocyclosorus fugongensis differs from P. canus mainly in intercostal areas glabrous adaxially and laminae with 2 pairs of reduced pinnae proximally.