taxonID	type	description	language	source
E47E2B1DB6395C5596A71D99EA736D7F.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2 In Chinese 宁强鳞毛蕨 (níng qiáng lín máo jué).	en	Tang, Jian-Quan, Liu, Yue-Tong, Fu, Wei, Wei, Hong-Jin, Li, Bin, Zuo, Zheng-Yu (2026): Dryopteris ningqiangensis, a new species of Dryopteridaceae from Shaanxi, China. PhytoKeys 269: 171-182, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.163893
E47E2B1DB6395C5596A71D99EA736D7F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Dryopteris ningqiangensis is similar to D. bissetiana and D. sacrosancta in overall shape but differs by the combination of the following characteristics: smaller frond size, partly deflexed black stipe scales on with slightly brown base, papyraceous lamina, remotely spaced pinnae, sori close to costa.	en	Tang, Jian-Quan, Liu, Yue-Tong, Fu, Wei, Wei, Hong-Jin, Li, Bin, Zuo, Zheng-Yu (2026): Dryopteris ningqiangensis, a new species of Dryopteridaceae from Shaanxi, China. PhytoKeys 269: 171-182, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.163893
E47E2B1DB6395C5596A71D99EA736D7F.taxon	description	Description. Plants terrestrial, evergreen, 13 – 46 cm tall. Frond caespitose. Rhizome erect or slightly ascending, clothed with dense scales. Scales linear-lanceolate, flat, spreading, base slightly brown, upper black. Stipe stramineous, ca. 4 – 17 cm, sparsely covered with scales, partly deflexed. Lamina papery, narrowly deltoid, widest at base, acuminate at apex, ca. 9 – 32 × 5 – 16 cm, binpinnate to tripinnate, with smaller scales on abaxial surface. Pinnae remotely spaced, 9 – 16 pairs, stalked, stalks ca. 0.3 – 1 cm, apex acuminate, basal 1 – 2 pairs opposite, upward alternate, basal pair largest, deltoid-lanceolate, up to 9 × 4 cm. Pinnules 5 – 14 pairs, margin serrate to pinnate, lanceolate to oblong, base symmetrical, apex obtuse, serrate; basal basiscopic pinnule of basal pinna largest, ca. 1 – 4 × 0.4 – 1.7 cm, widest at base, 2 - pinnate. Rachis and costa clothed with linear lanceolate scales and bullate scales. Veins pinnate, veinlets simple or forked, visible abaxially. Sori close to costule, in 1 row on either side of costule. Indusia brown, reniform, margins entire. Reproductive mode and ploidy level: triploid apogamous.	en	Tang, Jian-Quan, Liu, Yue-Tong, Fu, Wei, Wei, Hong-Jin, Li, Bin, Zuo, Zheng-Yu (2026): Dryopteris ningqiangensis, a new species of Dryopteridaceae from Shaanxi, China. PhytoKeys 269: 171-182, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.163893
E47E2B1DB6395C5596A71D99EA736D7F.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet is taken from Chinese Pinyin “ ningqiang ”, the name of the county in western Shaanxi Province, located at the junction of the Qinling and Bashan Mountains.	en	Tang, Jian-Quan, Liu, Yue-Tong, Fu, Wei, Wei, Hong-Jin, Li, Bin, Zuo, Zheng-Yu (2026): Dryopteris ningqiangensis, a new species of Dryopteridaceae from Shaanxi, China. PhytoKeys 269: 171-182, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.163893
