软毛瓦韦 ruan mao wa wei

Plants ca. 30 cm tall. Rhizomes long and creeping, ca. 4 mm in diam., densely scaly and brown villous, roots also densely very long villous; scales deep brown, triangular-lanceolate, 2-3 × 0.8-1.2 mm, usually with a tuft of hairs, margin with long and thick spines; lumina large, transparent. Fronds ± closely spaced; stipe straw-colored, 5-13 cm; lamina yellow-brown on both surfaces when dried, linear-lanceolate, 17-25 × 1.9-2 cm, thick and fleshy, softly leathery when dried, base attenuate, decurrent, apex shortly acuminate; costa raised on both sides, veinlets obscure. Sori closer to costa, orbicular; paraphyses brown, deeply stellate, margin with long and thick spines, 0.5-0.8 mm in diam.; lumina large.

● In rock crevices on high mountains; 3500-3800 m. Xizang.