Plants epiphytic; rhizomes 0.5-2.0 cm long, short-creeping to suberect, radially symmetric, lacking rhizome scales but with simple, yellow to stramineous, up to 2 mm long setat\ fronds 10-50(-110) x 3-7 cm, caespitose, pendulous with indeterminate growth; stipes 1-3 cm x 0.3-0.4 mm, castaneous to black, moderately densely covered with simple, yellow or stramineous, 0.5-2.0 mm long setae and simple or branched, clavate, yellow, 0.1-0.2 mm long, glandular hairs; blades linear-lanceolate, pinnatisect, very thin-chartaceous, gradually tapering at both ends, sometimes with 5(—10) reduced segment pairs at the bases; rachises sclerenchymatous, castaneous to black, scattered to moderately densely covered with simple, hyaline, yellow, 0.5-3.0 mm long setae and puberulent like the stipes; pinnae perpendicular to 70° oblique to the rachises, contiguous to moderately separated, 0.7-4.0 x 0.2-0.5 cm, linear to linear-deltate, symmetric or slightly asymmetric at the bases, acroscopically adnate to slightly curved, basiscopically adnate to slightly decurrent, apices acute to obtuse, margins setose, the setae simple and bifurcate, yellow, 0.5-2.0 mm long; veins free, 1-furcate, ending medially, conspicuous, dark brown; blade surfaces adaxially and abaxially scarcely covered with simple, yellow or stramineous, 0.5-2.0 mm long setae and also moderately to abundantly covered with glandular hairs like the stipes; hydathodes with lime dots; sori round, arising at the vein apices, up to 30 per pinna; receptacles not or sparsely setose; sporangia ciliate, the cilia to 0.6 mm long or rarely without cilia but then with ca. 0.1 mm long, yellow, clavate, glandular hairs. Costa Rica and Panama, in shady places in premontane rainforests and cloud forests, between 1200 and 2900 m. Costa Rica and Panama, in shady places in premontane rainforests and cloud forests, between 1200 and 2900 m. Plants epiphytic; rhizomes 0.5-2.0 cm long, short-creeping to suberect, radially symmetric, lacking rhizome scales but with simple, yellow to stramineous, up to 2 mm long setat\ fronds 10-50(-110) x 3-7 cm, caespitose, pendulous with indeterminate growth; stipes 1-3 cm x 0.3-0.4 mm, castaneous to black, moderately densely covered with simple, yellow or stramineous, 0.5-2.0 mm long setae and simple or branched, clavate, yellow, 0.1-0.2 mm long, glandular hairs; blades linear-lanceolate, pinnatisect, very thin-chartaceous, gradually tapering at both ends, sometimes with 5(—10) reduced segment pairs at the bases; rachises sclerenchymatous, castaneous to black, scattered to moderately densely covered with simple, hyaline, yellow, 0.5-3.0 mm long setae and puberulent like the stipes; pinnae perpendicular to 70° oblique to the rachises, contiguous to moderately separated, 0.7-4.0 x 0.2-0.5 cm, linear to linear-deltate, symmetric or slightly asymmetric at the bases, acroscopically adnate to slightly curved, basiscopically adnate to slightly decurrent, apices acute to obtuse, margins setose, the setae simple and bifurcate, yellow, 0.5-2.0 mm long; veins free, 1-furcate, ending medially, conspicuous, dark brown; blade surfaces adaxially and abaxially scarcely covered with simple, yellow or stramineous, 0.5-2.0 mm long setae and also moderately to abundantly covered with glandular hairs like the stipes; hydathodes with lime dots; sori round, arising at the vein apices, up to 30 per pinna; receptacles not or sparsely setose; sporangia ciliate, the cilia to 0.6 mm long or rarely without cilia but then with ca. 0.1 mm long, yellow, clavate, glandular hairs.General Information
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