Flora of North America species comparison

scales loosely appressed to spreading, concolored or bicolored with pale margins.

2–22 × 0.3–3.5 dm.

0.2–5.4 dm, sparsely to moderately scaly;

scales spreading, reddish to light brown throughout (rarely with pale margins).

sparsely to densely scaly, glabrous or pubescent, hairs mostly on veins and abaxial, pale to light brown, 0.2–0.7 mm.

circular to horseshoe-shaped, peltate or attached at narrow sinus, 0.8–1.1 mm wide.

absent.

1.8–17 dm, points of pinna attachment 7.5–35 mm apart;

scales moderately spaced, pale brown throughout.

pinnae narrowly deltate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 2.5–23 × 0.5–2 cm, base cuneate, truncate to auriculate-cordate acroscopically, rounded basiscopically, acroscopic lobe small and oblong or absent, margins biserrate to serrulate, apex attenuate;

costae adaxially glabrous or densely hairy, hairs erect, pale, 0.3 mm.

= 82.