Cheilanthes, commonly known as lip ferns,[2] is a genus of about 180 species of rock-dwelling ferns with a cosmopolitan distribution in warm, dry, rocky regions, often growing in small crevices high up on cliffs. Most are small, sturdy and evergreen. The leaves, often densely covered in trichomes, spring directly from the rootstocks. Many of them are desert ferns, curling up during dry times and reviving with the coming of moisture. At the ends of veins sporangia, or spore-bearing structures, are protected by leaf margins, which curl over them.
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Cheilanthes cinnamomea is a species name, which may refer to: Myriopteris rufa, given a nomen novum in 1883 as Cheilanthes cinnamomea D.C.Eaton Myriopteris...
Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia is a species of Australian rock fern from the family Pteridaceae. Once a common understory plant along streams in moist areas...
classified in the genus Cheilanthes until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It typically grows in shallow...
in the genus Cheilanthes, as Cheilanthes eatonii, until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It typically...
classified in the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes bonariensis, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It typically grows...
Cheilanthes, a treatment followed by most authors until the 21st century. However, some pteridologists adopted a more narrow concept of Cheilanthes and...
classified in the genus Cheilanthes until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. The fronds emerge in clumps...
from Chile and South America respectively, which he named Cheilanthes elegans and Cheilanthes myriophylla. The development of molecular phylogenetic methods...
species was first described as Cheilanthes mickelii by Timothy Reeves in 1980. After examining purported specimens of Cheilanthes tryonii (now Myriopteris cinnamomea)...
the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes alabamensis until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It typically...
not to recognize it. Karel Domin transferred this species to Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes cinnamomea. This name had already been used by Daniel Cady Eaton...
Myriopteris rawsonii, formerly known as Cheilanthes rawsonii, is a perennial fern native to Namaqualand in Southern Africa. Like many other cheilanthoid...
stems. The species was originally described by Gustav Kunze in 1834 as Cheilanthes parallelogramma. Presl transferred it to the genus Hypolepis in 1836...
classified in the genus Cheilanthes until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It grows in oak-pine forests...
Cheilanthes caudata is a species of fern in the family Pteridaceae, native to northern Australia and possibly New Caledonia. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt...
Cheilanthes sieberi is a small fern growing in many parts of Australia, New Zealand and nearby islands. Common names include poison rock fern and mulga...
ISBN 978-0-89327-488-7. "Cheilanthes covillei". NatureServe. January 5, 2024. Retrieved January 13, 2024. Windham, Michael D.; Rabe, Eric W. (1993). "Cheilanthes covillei"...
in the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes aemula until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It typically...
Cheilanthes acrostica is a species of lip fern The fronds are arranged in groups. Cheilanthes acrostica is found in Mediterranean areas including Iberia...
that genus having been published before Cheilanthes. Farwell's name was rendered unnecessary when Cheilanthes was conserved over Allosorus in the Paris...
the family Pteridaceae with a single species Baja brandegeei, synonym Cheilanthes brandegeei. The species is native to Baja California including the offshore...
was not taken up until 2004, when John Mickel first described it as Cheilanthes maxoniana, naming it in honor of Maxon. The species is only known from...
Myriopteris gracilis, formerly known as Cheilanthes feei, is a species of lip fern known by the common name slender lip fern or Fee's lip fern. Myriopteris...
that genus having been published before Cheilanthes. Farwell's name was rendered unnecessary when Cheilanthes was conserved over Allosorus in the Paris...
Myriopteris parryi, formerly known as Cheilanthes parryi, is a species of lip fern known by the common name Parry's lip fern. Myriopteris parryi is a...
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