峨眉假毛蕨 e mei jia mao jue

Plants to 100 cm tall. Rhizomes not seen. Stipes 15-20 cm, stramineous, glabrous; laminae lanceolate, 80-90 × ca. 20 cm, pinnate-pinnatifid; proximal 4 pairs of pinnae reduced and hastate; middle normal pinnae ca. 20 pairs, spreading, alternate, narrowly lanceolate, 12-14 × ca. 1.4 cm, bases rounded-truncate, sessile, pinnatifid, remote from each other; segments ca. 30 pairs, narrowly ligulate, ca. 5 × 2 mm, margins undulate on distal half; proximal pair of segments not clearly elongated. Veins evident on both sides, ca. 8 pairs of veinlets per segment, simple, basal acroscopic veinlet reaching bottom of sinus, basiscopic one reaching margin above sinus. Laminae dark green when dry, firmly papery; rachises subglabrous proximally, with few setae distally, setae denser adaxially on rachises, abaxially finely shortly hairy on costae, costules with appressed soft hairs and glands, adaxially with dense setae along grooves of costae, sparsely hairy on veins, glabrous on intercostal areas on both surfaces. Sori orbicular and attached above middle of veinlets; indusia orbicular-reniform, brown, thick, glabrous, persistent.

● Streamsides, under Larix trees; ca. 700 m. Sichuan (Emei Shan).