Flora of North America species comparison

short-creeping;

scales bronzy deep yellow, concolored, margins entire.

short-creeping to nearly erect;

scales dark reddish brown, concolored, margins entire or minutely denticulate.

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

arching or pendent, densely clustered, 20–62 cm.

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

0.8–1 mm diam., glabrous, occasionally 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, 15–38 × 8–26 cm, gradually reduced distally, hirsute;

proximal pinnae 3–4-pinnate;

rachis straight or becoming flexuous, glabrous, not glaucous.

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.

transversely oblong, nearly round, or fan-shaped, about as long as broad;

base truncate or cuneate;

margins of fertile segments crenulate or entire, sterile segments with margins serrulate;

apex rounded.

transversely oblong, 1–3 mm, glabrous.

transversely oblong or crescent-shaped, 0.5–4 mm, covered with whitish needlelike trichomes.

mostly 34–40 µm diam. 2n = 58.

mostly 35–53 µm diam.

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

stalks 1–4 mm, dark color ending ± abruptly at segment base.