OregonFlora species comparison

short, ascending; much-branched and forming a caudex;

scales stiff; narrow and dark.

usually evergreen in dense clusters from the caudex; up to 25 cm long, monomorphic to slightly dimorphic; most or all leaves erect and fertile; some leaves smaller; non-fertile; and spreading.

long and slender, often much longer than the blades; dark purplish brown, glabrous and glossy; dark color usually extending to the proximal part of the rachis;

distal rachis and rachillae green.

3-pinnate; up to about 6 cm; ovate, glabrous; leathery.

of non-fertile leaves; where present, narrowly ovate or oblong, toothed, fertile segments linear; dense, spreading and twisted adaxially, 3–10 mm long.

linear; pale, continuous; parallel to and slightly inside the segment margins.

covering the abaxial surface; except for the midrib area and the apex, partially covered by the false indusium.

=60.