136.000 Cheilanthes Sw.

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Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970) Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca

Description of the genus

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.

Derivation of name: cheilos: lip, anthos: flower; an allusion to the marginal sori.

Worldwide: c.150-200 species, cosmopolitan.

Zambia: 11 taxa.

Cheilanthes viridis var. glauca

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsProvincesContent
angustifrondosa AlstonNLp,NDescription
buchananii (Baker) DominN,C,EMcDescription, Image
inaequalis (Kunze) Mett.N,W,C,E,SNw,LkDescription, Image
involuta (Sw.) Schelpe & N.C. Anthony var. obscura (N.C. Anthony) N.C. AnthonySSDescription, Image
leachii (Schelpe) SchelpeN,C,EN,C,LkDescription, Image
multifida (Sw.) Sw.N,W,ENw,CbDescription, Image
perlanata (Pic. Serm.) KornasDescription
schimperi KunzeN,W,C,SNw,N,LkDescription, Image
similis F. BallardN,WNw,LpDescription
viridis (Forssk.) Sw. var. viridis Description, Image
viridis (Forssk.) Sw. var. glauca (Sim) Schelpe & N.C. AnthonyC,E,SLkDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Cheilanthes:

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Flora of Botswana: Cheilanthes
Flora of Burundi: Cheilanthes
Flora of the DRC: Cheilanthes
Flora of Malawi: Cheilanthes
Flora of Mozambique: Cheilanthes
Flora of Rwanda: Cheilanthes
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cheilanthes

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Cheilanthes
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cheilanthes
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cheilanthes
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cheilanthes
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Cheilanthes
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cheilanthes
JSTOR Plant Science: Cheilanthes
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cheilanthes
Plants of the World Online: Cheilanthes
Tropicos: Cheilanthes
Wikipedia: Cheilanthes

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Cheilanthes.
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