Flora of North America species comparison

short-creeping;

scales bronzy deep yellow, concolored, margins entire.

short-creeping;

scales dark reddish brown, concolored, margins entire.

lax-arching (rarely pendent), closely spaced, 40–75 cm.

arching to erect, clustered, (15–)35–80 cm.

1–2 mm diam., glabrous, occasionally glaucous.

1–2 mm diam., minutely rough, abaxially strigose, not glaucous.

fan-shaped, pseudopedate, 1-pinnate distally, 15–30 × 15–35 cm, glabrous;

proximal pinnae 3–9-pinnate;

rachis straight, glabrous, occasionally glaucous.

ovate, pinnate, 1-pinnate distally (small leaves 1-pinnate throughout), (11–)15–35 × (3.5–)8–15 cm, glabrous;

proximal pinnae (and sometimes also next 2–3 pairs) 1–2(–3)-pinnate;

rachis straight, densely minutely rough.

oblong, ca. 3 times as long as broad;

basiscopic margin straight;

acroscopic margin lobed, lobes separated by narrow incisions 0–0.9(–1.1) mm wide;

apex obtuse, divided into shallow, rounded lobes separated by shallow sinuses 0.1–2(–3.7) mm deep, margins of lobes crenulate or crenate-denticulate.

oblong, about 2 times as long as broad;

basiscopic margin straight or sometimes oblique;

acroscopic margin shallowly lobed, lobes separated by narrow incisions;

apex obtuse, shallowly lobed.

transversely oblong, 1–3 mm, glabrous.

crescent-shaped, 1–4.5 mm, glabrous.

mostly 34–40 µm diam. 2n = 58.

mostly 40–50 µm diam. 2n = 60.

stalks 0.5–1.5(–1.7) mm, dark color entering into segment base.

stalks 0.1–0.8 mm, dark color entering into segment base.