刚毛新月蕨 gang mao xin yue jue

Plants 50-100 cm or taller. Rhizomes creeping, ca. 1 cm in diam., with dense lanceolate brown scales. Fronds remote; stipes 30-100 cm, woody, dark stramineous, bases with dark brown lanceolate scales, throughout with acicular setae; laminae elliptic, 50-80 × 30-60 cm, 1-imparipinnate; lateral pinnae 8-11 pairs, subobliquely spreading, alternate, proximal pair slightly reduced; middle ones narrowly ovate, 15-40 × 3-3.5 cm, bases rounded-cuneate, shortly stalked, margins regularly serrate, apices acuminate; terminal pinna of similar shape and size as lateral ones, long stalked. Veins evident, costae grooved adaxially, raised abaxially, veinlets raised on both sides, proximal pair of veinlets forming a triangular areole, distally every pair with excurrent veinlets joining into multipaired subrectangular areoles. Laminae papery when dry, yellowish brown, adaxially with dense appressed setae along costal grooves, occasionally with 1 or 2 setae along veinlets, elsewhere glabrous, abaxial surface with dense long acicular hairs along veins and intercostal areas. Sori orbicular, attached on middle of veinlets, with dense short hairs on indusia, also shortly hairy on sporangia.

● Dense forests; 500-1300 m. Yunnan.