Cheilanthes peninsularis Maxon
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Authority
Mickel, John T. & Smith, Alan R. 2004. The pteridophytes of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 88: 1-1054.
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Family
Pteridaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Rhizomes short-creeping, horizontal, 1 mm diam.; rhizome scales linear-lanceolate, concolorous orange-brown, weakly bicolorous with age, weakly and irregularly toothed to entire; fronds to 26(–30) cm, clumped; stipes 1/2 the frond length, castaneous to purplish brown, grooved, lustrous, with scattered, filiform, tortuous to straight, orange-brown scales, 1–3 mm, plus many reduced, often contorted and hair-tipped scales/hairs, 0.1– 0.3 mm; blades deltate to lanceolate, tripinnate-pinnatifid; rachises and rachillae with scales like those of stipes (but lesser axes with deltate-attenuate and tortuous scales); pinnae 5–11, equilateral except basal pair basiscopically exaggerated; adaxial surfaces green, glabrous; abaxial surfaces glabrous except for scales on dark axes; sori along segment tips only, margins curved, but not differentiated; spores tan.
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Discussion
Type. Mexico. Baja California: Cape Region, Nov 1902, Brandegee s.n. (US!, frag. NY!).
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Distribution
Terrestrial or epipetric on rocky slopes among shrubs and in open woods; 0–1350 m. Mexico.
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