Anemia hispida Kunze

Anemia pastinacaria Moritz ; Prantl, Schiz. 110. 1881
Anemia pilosa longisiipes I,iebra. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. V. 1 : 301. 1849. Anemia longisiipes C. Chr. Index Fil. 53. 1905.
Rhizome horizontal ; fronds several, the stipe of the fertile fronds surpassing the sterile fronds, often greatly so. Fertile fronds (including the greatly elongate fertile pinnae) 18-48 cm. long ; stipe 7-25 cm. long, slender, stramineous or darker at the base, glabrescent ; sterile lamina ovate-deltoid, sometimes narrowly so, 4-8.5 cm, long, 2.5-5.5 cm. broad, pinnate, acutish to acuminate, the rachis slender, glabrescent ; pinnae 6-10 pairs, approximate or nearly their width apart, the lower ones spreading, the otters ascending, all but the uppermost subsessile ; lower and middle pinnae strongly inaequilateral at the base, long-cuneate below, above obtusely truncate, obliquely oblong, the apex obtuse or acutish, the margins thickened, irregularly denticulate-crenulate, commonly with a few very shallow oblique incisions, especially upon the upper margin ; upper pinnae gradually smaller, narrower, semiadnate, abruptly confluent at the apex ; leaf-tissue rigidly membranous to herbaceo-coriaceous, opaque, dull-greenish above, lighter below, sparingly pilose above, glabrescent below; veins elevated above, nearly concealed below; fertile pinnae 10-23 cm. long, 1^-2 >^ times as long as the sterile lamina, the stalks a little longer than the closely branched panicle ; spores striate, the ridges with numerous slender columnar processes. Sterile fronds 8-23 cm. long, the stipe as long as the lamina ; lamina 4-11.5 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, ovate-oblong or rarely deltoid-ovate, otherwise resembling the sterile lamina of the fertile fronds.
Type locality : Rocky situations, valley of the Rio Tigre, Colombia.
Distribution: Southern Mexico and Central America; Cuba (rare) ; also in northern South America.