Cheilanthes lanosa |
Cheilanthes gracillima |
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hairy lip fern |
lace fern, lace lipfern |
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Stems | compact to short-creeping, usually 4–8 mm diam.; scales often uniformly brown but at least some on each plant with thin, poorly defined, dark, central stripe, linear-lanceolate, straight to slightly contorted, loosely appressed, persistent. |
short-creeping, 4–8 mm diam.; scales uniformly brown or with poorly defined, dark, central stripe, linear-lanceolate, straight to slightly contorted, loosely appressed, persistent. |
Leaves | clustered, 7–50 cm; vernation circinate. |
clustered, 5–25 cm; vernation noncircinate. |
Petiole | dark brown, rounded adaxially. |
dark brown, rounded adaxially. |
Blade | linear-oblong to lanceolate, usually 2-pinnate-pinnatifid at base, 1.5–5 cm wide; rachis rounded adaxially, lacking scales, with monomorphic pubescence. |
linear-oblong, 2–3-pinnate at base, 1–2.5 cm wide; rachis rounded adaxially, with scattered linear scales, not pubescent. |
Ultimate segments | oblong to lanceolate, not beadlike, the largest 3–5 mm, abaxially and adaxially sparsely hirsute with long, segmented hairs. |
oblong or rarely oval, beadlike, the largest 1.5–3 mm, abaxially densely covered with branched hairs and small, ciliate scales, adaxially with scattered, branched hairs or glabrescent. |
Pinnae | not articulate, dark color of stalk continuing into pinna base, basal pair slightly smaller than adjacent pair, ± equilateral, appearing sparsely hirsute adaxially. |
not articulate, dark color of stalk continuing into pinna base, basal pair not conspicuously larger than adjacent pair, usually equilateral, appearing sparsely pubescent or glabrous adaxially. |
False indusia | marginal, weakly differentiated, 0.05–0.25 mm wide. |
marginal, slightly differentiated, 0.05–0.25 mm wide. |
Sori | discontinuous, concentrated on small apical and lateral lobes. |
± continuous around segment margins. |
Sporangia | containing 64 spores. |
containing 64 spores. |
Costae | brown adaxially for most of length; abaxial scales absent. |
green adaxially for most of length; abaxial scales multiseriate, linear, truncate at base, inconspicuous, the largest 0.1–0.4 mm wide, loosely imbricate, not concealing ultimate segments, long-ciliate, cilia usually confined to base. |
2n | = 60. |
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Cheilanthes lanosa |
Cheilanthes gracillima |
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Phenology | Sporulating summer–fall. | Sporulating summer–fall. |
Habitat | Rocky slopes and ledges, on a variety of substrates including limestone and granite | Cliffs and rocky slopes, usually on igneous substrates |
Elevation | 100–800 m (300–2600 ft) | 800–3000 m (2600–9800 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MN; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; AB; BC
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Discussion | Cheilanthes lanosa is apparently confined to the forests and prairies of eastern North America, and reports of this distinctive species from Arizona and New Mexico (A. J. Petrik-Ott 1979) have not been substantiated by herbarium specimens. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Cheilanthes gracillima is a well-marked species, but it apparently hybridizes with C. intertexta (see reticulogram) to produce plants of intermediate morphology with malformed spores that have been called C. gracillima var. aberrans M. E. Jones (A. R. Smith 1974). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 2. | FNA vol. 2. |
Parent taxa | Pteridaceae > Cheilanthes | Pteridaceae > Cheilanthes |
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Synonyms | Nephrodium lanosum, C. vestita | Myriopteris gracillima |
Name authority | (Michaux) D. C. Eaton: in Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 234. (1859) | D. C. Eaton: in Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2: 234. (1859) |
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