OregonFlora species comparison

ascending; stout; much-branched and forming a caudex;

scales dense; long and very narrow, uniformly brown.

ascending, branched and forming a caudex;

scales dense; long; narrow and bicolored.

in more or less dense clumps from multiple apices; small; to about 20 × 4 cm.

in more or less dense tufts from the caudex; small; to about 25 × 4 cm.

up to half the leaf length, dark brown and glossy; color and texture extending into proximal part of rachis;

distal rachis tip usually green, prominent annular articulation lines present near the petiole base.

well developed; up to half the leaf length;

petiole and rachis medium to dark brown; glossy;

basal annular lines absent.

linear oblong lanceolate, pinnate-pinnatifid;

pinnae twisted out of plane, curved forwards and upwards.

simply pinnate and linear; at least the proximal pinnae twisted out of plane.

broad; most deeply divided into 2(3) unequal lobes, acroscopic lobe largest; up to 1.5 × 1 cm, green; leathery, glabrous or glaucous;

apex rounded to acute;

base obtuse, truncate or subcordate;

veins free; visible, shortly petiolate to subsessile.

broadly ovate; leathery, glabrous;

apex rounded;

base rounded or sub e, slightly falcate;

margins glaucous;

margin entire or slightly crenate, not or only slightly recurved, not forming a false indusium, glaucous;

veins anastomosing but rather obscure.

in submarginal lines along the margins of each lobe, mostly covered by a false indusium; waxy glands and farina absent.

forming a submarginal line on each side of the pinna, absent from the base, extending into the rounded apex, often almost to the tip, not covered by the leaf margin; waxy glands and farina abundant.

=58.

=58.