terrestrial plant with no flowers or bulbs sporangia present
Herbs reproducing by spores released directly from sporangia, the sporangia variously located [on abaxial leaf face, [LYCOPHYTES and FERNS]
Leaves with well developed blades; veins many
Plant terrestrial or strongly emergent if in wet soil, leaf 1pinnate, sporangia borne on aerial portion of leaf
Leaves all alike or nearly so, the fertile [sporangium-bearing] blades very similar in size and shape to sterile blades.
sporangia borne on underside of leaf blade in distinct sori. Sori borne away from margin on underside of leaf or leaflet new leaves generally coiled, unrolling as they develop
indusia present
. Veins of leaf segment forming a network; sori generally 2–4 mm, linear-oblong, end-to-end in rows parallel to midvein of leaf segment — leaves 1 pinnate with deeply pinnately lobed pinnae
Blade 1-pinnate, pinnae deeply pinnately lobed; leaves of ± 1 kind; sori many per lobe , oblong , 2–4 × longer than wide, end-to-end along each side of lobe midrib, some oblong to linear along costa also
DESCRIPTION
Perennial Fern, California Native, Evergreen found near streams, springs, seeps
Rhizome: short and stubby.
Stipe/Petiole: has oragne/brown-straw colored scales
Leaf blade is 1pinnate with leaflet/pinnae deeply pinnately lobed. Has netted venation. Fronds 6-8ft. Pinnae biggest and middle, reduced lower and higher
Sori are oblong and line up end to end along both side of midrib. It looks like a chain stitch pattern
Taco shaped indusium covers sporangium on the sorus
