Climbing Bristle Fern

Description

Its rhizome is very long, rather robust, creeping, black, covered with abundant hair,with numerous filiform roots; Its cortex is heterogeneous, constituting a peculiarity in the subgenus;The fronds are about twenty centimeters, pale green to yellow;The petiole is cylindrical and not winged (which differentiates it from Vandenboschia radicans )The limb is divided three times;The sores are tubular with a rather short columella bearing sporangia; They are inserted into the limbus at the end of the segments.This species is tetraploid with 64 chromosomes