云贵新月蕨 yun gui xin yue jue

Plants 70-150 cm tall. Rhizomes creeping, thick, ca. 1 cm in diam., with narrowly lanceolate scales. Fronds remote; stipes 40-100 cm, woody and glabrous; laminae ovate-lanceolate, 55-80 × 40-60 cm, 1-imparipinnate; lateral pinnae 8-16 pairs, proximal pair slightly reduced; middle pinnae narrowly ovate, 30-50 × 3.5-4.5 cm, bases rounded-cuneate, shortly stalked, margins regularly serrate, apices long caudate; terminal pinna larger than proximal ones, of similar shape, long stalked. Veins evident, raised abaxially, costae grooved adaxially. Laminae dark brown-green when dry, papery, adaxially with dense appressed setae along costal grooves, abaxial surface with very sparse short hairs along costae and veinlets, elsewhere glabrous, usually not foveolate on intercostal areas. Sori orbicular, attached on middle of veinlets; indusia and sporangia hairy.

● Sparse forests on slopes; 200-800 m. Guizhou, Yunnan.