OregonFlora species comparison

ascending or decumbent.

small; up to 35 cm; bulbils absent.

up to 25% leaf length; chaffy near the base;

scales very sparse distally; small and sparse along the rachis.

2-pinnate, narrowly lanceolate, not much narrowed at base;

microscales linear; sparse on the ab- and adaxial costa.

ovate; up to 2 cm long; lowest pinnae often remote, not overlapping;

distal pinnae overlapping, twisted out of plane with pinnules folded again creating a complex 3-dimensional structure; pinnules ovate; pinnatifid with irregularly lobed or toothed margins;

teeth acute or obtuse, not spine-tipped;

basal (acroscopic) pinnule not enlarged.

with indusial margins more or less entire.

=82.