拟路南鳞毛蕨 ni lu nan lin mao jue

Plants up to 85 cm tall. Rhizome thick, erect, densely scaly. Fronds caespitose; stipe stramineous, ca. 40 cm, base incrassate, basal scales brown or dark brown, lanceolate to subulate, margin entire or remotely fimbriate, upper ones brown or fuscous, narrowly lanceolate to linear-subulate, margin sparsely shortly fimbriate; lamina oblong or ovate-oblong, 50-60 × ca. 25 cm, bipinnatifid, base truncate, apex shortly acuminate; pinnae horizontally patent, ca. 20 pairs, linear-lanceolate, 12-14 × 1.5-2.5 cm, pinnatifid, lobed halfway to costa, pinnatisect at base, base broadly truncate, sessile, apex long acuminate; segments oblong, base broad, margin sharply serrulate, apex obtuse or subtruncate-rounded. Lamina papery, glabrous adaxially, sparsely scaly on costa abaxially; veins 5-7 pairs, simple or bifurcate. Sori 4-8 on each segment, in irregular 2-4 rows on middle of lamina; indusia orbicular-reniform, glabrous, entire.

● Forests; 1500-1800 m. Taiwan (Taidong, Taizhong, Xinzhu).