Pyrrosla lingua

Detailed Product Description

Description Rhizome: long-creeping, wiry, 3 mm, with phylopodia, scales dense, red to yellow-brown, to 8 mm.
Frond: 30 cm high by 5 cm wide, evergreen, somewhat dimorphic, fertile fronds shorter, narrower, blade/stipe ratio: 1:1 more or less.
Stipe: straw-colored to brown, star-shaped hairs dense while young, falling soon; a few scales near the base, vascular bundles: .
Blade: simple, ovate, leathery, thick, glossy above, star-shaped hairs on both surfaces when young, becoming glabrous above early, below later.
Margins entire; veins appearing free above, but obscurely netted below, difficult to see even with a hand-lens.
Sori: round or oblong, ends of veins, becoming confluent, indusium: absent, sporangia: yellow to brown at maturity.