OregonFlora species comparison

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

scales dense; long and very narrow, uniformly brown.

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

linear oblong lanceolate, pinnate-pinnatifid;

pinnae twisted out of plane, curved forwards and upwards.

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.

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

=58.