Danaea jenmani

Danaea jenmani Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 29 : 677. 1902
A rather small slender species, with short blunt pinnae ; rhizome slender, the leafnodes close ; leaves 2-4, rather dull, 25-50 cm. long, the stipes usually with 1-2 nodes, olive, channeled when dry, 10-20 cm. long, scurfy with small, rather pale-brown, concolorous, appressed scales ; lamina of the sterile frond usually narrowly oblong, sometimes elliptic, 15-30 cm. long, 9-18 cm. broad, the rachis green, or brownish with scales, narrowly and discontinuously winged ; pinnae 20-30 (the terminal node without pinnae in mature fronds), oblong, 5-9 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, usually oblique, straight or slightly curved, abruptly narrowed both ways, cuneate to rounded below, acute or short-acuminate above, serrulate toward the apex; midveins scaly, the veinlets forking, 12-14 per cm.; sporophyls narrower, with shorter, much narrower pinnae.
Type locality : Jamaica.
Distribution: Blue Mountains, Jamaica, altitude 600-1000 meters.