Flora of North America species comparison

horizontal, short-creeping.

erect, compact.

straw-colored, 1–3 times length of blade, hairs absent abaxially, pubescent adaxially, base scaly;

scales lanceolate to linear, 1–3 × 0.3–0.5 mm.

straw-colored to tan or chestnut brown, equaling or slightly longer than blade, pubescent on both surfaces, base scaly;

scales narrowly lanceolate, 3–8 × 0.2–0.7 mm.

deltate to pentagonal, 1-pinnate or ternately lobed, 5–10 × 3–7 cm.

oblong or ovate-oblong, 1-pinnate, 0.15–1.2 × 0.2–0.5 m. Rachis and costae puberulent abaxially.

absent or 1(–2) pair, or blade shallowly pinnatifid, 4–7 cm, base rounded, without proliferous buds in axils.

(2–)3–6 pairs, 12–25 cm, base oblique, with 1–2 proximal basiscopic lobes, margins crenate without proliferous buds in axils.

peltate.

attached laterally.

and costae pubescent abaxially.

rarely with included veinlets.

with included veinlets.

= 80.

= 160.