OregonFlora species comparison

ascending.

erect.

small, mostly under 20 cm; bulbils absent.

robust; to approximately 1 m long.

variable in length from very short up to almost 50% of the leaf length; chaffy at base;

scales sparser distally and present on at least the proximal part of the rachis.

to 25 cm, densely clothed with brownish scales which continue along the rachis.

1-pinnate-pinnatifid (sometimes 1-pinnate), narrowly lanceolate, not much reduced basally;

microscales narrow, confined to the abaxial costa.

1-pinnatepinnatifid, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, reaching 75 × 25 cm, narrowing to apex and base; abaxial veins with numerous filiform microscales;

scales sparse to nearly absent adaxially distal 33% of the adaxial rachis bearing 1 or more scaly bulbils.

more or less ovate; small; to about 1.5 cm, overlapping, usually twisted out of plane;

distal part strongly spiny-dentate with spreading spines; a few proximal segments more deeply incised, with several spreading spines, acroscopic lobe enlarged, sometimes forming a distinct pinnule.

narrowly ovate to triangular, slightly falcate; to approximately 9 cm long; borne in 1 plane and not overlapping, deeply pinnatifid in mid-region with sinuses progressively reduced distally;

distal lobes in the form of a triangular tooth with an incurved apical spine;

proximal pinnules oblong with terminal and lateral spines, acroscopic pinnule enlarged, sometimes free to the costa (2-pinnate) on proximal pinnae.

with entire indusium.

with sparsely ciliate indusia margins.

=164.

=164.