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Rhizome erect or shortly creeping, with linear scales. Stipe dark reddish-brown to black, glabrous and glossy or pilose. Fronds tufted or widely spaced, pinnately compound, uniform or rarely dimorphic, the pinnae and ultimate segments never articulated, glabrous, pubescent, pilose or tomentose, but never with coloured powdery undumentum on the underside. Sori small, discrete, borne on vein endings near the margins, or in soral lines, protected by a continuous or interrupted indusium or by the recurved lobes of the ultimate segments.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Cheilanthes Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=27
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Cheilanthes

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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.

Taxonomy

The genus name is derived from the Greek words χεῖλος (cheilos), meaning "lip," and ἄνθος (anthos), meaning "flower."[3]

Cheilanthes as traditionally circumscribed is now known to be highly paraphyletic, comprising at least four generically separate groups. The type species, C. micropteris, is most closely allied to the genera Aleuritopteris and Sinopteris (Schuettpelz et al.). In the early 21st century, many species, principally from the New World, were moved into the new genus Gaga and the revived genus Myriopteris. Further work remains to be done to render Cheilanthes monophyletic. Members of many other cheilanthoid genera have at times been given names in the genus.

Species

The circumscription of the genus was uncertain as of January 2020. The Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World lists species in several distinct groups.[4]

Cheilanthes sensu stricto contains about 20 species from North and tropical Central and South America:[5]

Cheilanthes sensu lato contains about 50 species that molecular phylogenetic studies suggest do not form a clade with the core Cheilanthes species, falling into separate clades, but for which no placement outside Cheilanthes was available as of November 2019:[6]

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  1. ^ a b "Genus: Cheilanthes Sw". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
  2. ^ "Cheilanthes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  3. ^ Moran, Robbin Craig (2004). A Natural History of Ferns. Timber Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-88192-667-5.
  4. ^ a b Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019). "Search for Cheilanthes". Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.11. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  5. ^ Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019). "Search for Cheilanthes Sw.". Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.11. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  6. ^ Based on searching for all Cheilanthes species and removing those found by searching for "Cheilanthes Sw." in the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World.[4]
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Cheilanthes: Brief Summary

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Cheilanthes, commonly known as lip ferns, 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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