两广鳞毛蕨 liang guang lin mao jue

Plants up to 1.5 m tall. Rhizome erect or creeping; scales of rhizome and lower part of stipe dense, dark brown, oblong-lanceolate, entire, acuminate. Fronds caespitose; stipe stramineous, ca. 50 cm, ca. 1 cm in diam. at base, densely clothed with brown, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate scales; lamina oblong-lanceolate, 80-100 × ca. 40 cm, once pinnate, base not narrowed or slightly narrowed, apex acuminate; pinnae ca. 30 pairs, spreading, remote, lanceolate, middle pinnae 16-20 cm, widest at base, 2-3 cm wide, base truncate, sessile, margin incised or lobed, apex acuminate; lobe apices obtuse, entire. Lamina herbaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, with dark brown, lanceolate, fibrillose scales along rachis and costa; lateral veins pinnate, not forked, raised on both surfaces. Sori abaxial on veinlets, 3 or 4 pairs on each lobe, exindusiate.

Forests, wet ravines; 600-1700 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, SE Yunnan [Vietnam].