Compilation
Dryopteris contigua

Rhizome erect, with tufted fronds, and with brown to dark-brown lanceolate or attenuate, entire to ciliate, often thinly pilose rhizome-scales up to 6 mm. long. Frond non-proliferous, softly herbaceous. Stipe up to 46 cm., pale-brown, dark at the base, thinly pubescent with minute whitish hairs, and with dark-brown scales similar to those of the rhizome at the base. Lamina up to 59 x 30 cm., deeply 2-pinnatifid, lanceolate in outline, apex acuminate with a deeply pinnatifid terminal segment; the lowest 2 pairs of pinnae somewhat reduced, deflexed; middle pinnae up to 16 x 1.7 cm., very narrowly oblong or attenuate, deeply pinnatifid into narrowly oblong somewhat falcate, obtuse entire lobes up to 3 mm. broad (the basal acroscopic lobe somewhat larger than the rest), thinly pilose ventrally, thinly pilose with long white hairs up to 0.7 mm. long, especially on the costa and costules dorsally; the basal pair of veins anastomosing at a very obtuse angle below the sinus. Rhachis pale-brown, pilose with curved whitish hairs especially along the ventral furrow. Sori up to 13 per pinna lobe, circular, borne 1/2-way between the costules and the margin; indusium 1 mm. in diam., densely pilose with long white silky hairs.