Cheilanthes lanosa
Cheilanthes
erect, ascending, or shortly creeping, branched and often forming a caudex;
scales abundant; narrow, uniformly brown or bicolored with a more or less prominent dark stripe and narrow paler margins.
short;
segments often small and strongly convex adaxially, giving the leaf surface a bubbly or beaded appearance; young leaves coiled like a fiddle-head (circinate) or straight with a hooked apex (non-circinate).
slender, dark brown, often glossy, rounded in section or flattened adaxially; to paler and flattened; indumentum glabrous, scaly or pubescent.
linear-lanceolate to ovate, 2–4 pinnate.
with strongly recurved margins; and with a usually dense abaxial indumentum of ovate, ciliate; to deeply dissected scales and/or branched or simple hairs.
on veins near segment margins, completely or partially covered by a false indusium formed by the recurved leaf margin, often with thin, white edges.
tetrahedral-globose with 3 flattened sides and the distal side rounded; wall ornamentation rough, rugose to irregularly ridged.
Cheilanthes lanosa
Cheilanthes
Cosmopolitan. About 155 species; 3 species treated in Flora.
Cheilanthes covillei, Coville’s lipfern, has been collected once in Jackson County. It is a southern species found in California and Nevada but not in the areas adjacent to Oregon. It resembles C. intertexta and can be separated from that species by the larger abaxial scales on the leaf segments, which exceed the margin, while the scales in the lowest layer next to the leaf surface are less deeply divided than those of C. intertexta.
Duncan Thomas
Flora NW
PNW Herbaria
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist
USDA Plants Database
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