[3] It grows in canyons, streambanks, and seeps in several types of habitat.

[3] Christella puberula produces a number of regularly shaped, equally spaced green leaves with numerous long, flat, lance-shaped leaflets.

One leaf may exceed 1.5 meters in length, and the thick leaflets may be over 20 centimeters long.

The undersides of the leaflets are hairy, especially on the indusia covering the spore-bearing sori.

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