OregonFlora species comparison

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

scales stiff; narrow and dark.

ascending or creeping, branched, often forming a caudex;

scales lanceolate and (dark) brown, monochromatic or bicolored with narrow; paler margins.

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.

clustered; long-petiolate, monomorphic to dimorphic; plants often with a few spreading vegetative leaves with broader segments in addition to the longer; more or less erect fertile leaves.

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.

dark colored, glabrous above the base, often much longer than the blade.

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

leathery to subherbaceous, glabrous; more or less ovate, 3–4 pinnate, fertile segments linear or lanceolate with an acute sterile tip.

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.

with false indusia borne inframarginal ly inside the adaxial leaf margin; and therefore having the appearance of true indusia, continuous or discontinuous along the 2 sides of the segment; sori borne on and under the false indusium.

trilete and tetrahedral with a hemispherical distal quarter.

=60.