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136.000 Cheilanthes
Crouch, N.R., Klopper, R.R., Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2011) Ferns of Southern Africa, A comprehensive guide Struik Nature
Jacobsen, W.B.G. (1983) The Ferns and Fern Allies of Southern Africa. Butterworths, Durban and Pretoria.
Roux, J.P. (2001) Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 13
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. Zimbabwe: 13 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| bergiana Schltdl. | E | Description, Image |
| buchananii (Baker) Domin | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| eckloniana (Kunze) Mett. | C,E,S | Description |
| hirta Sw.[Agg] | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| inaequalis (Kunze) Mett. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| involuta (Sw.) Schelpe & N.C. Anthony var. obscura (N.C. Anthony) N.C. Anthony | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| leachii (Schelpe) Schelpe | W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| multifida (Sw.) Sw. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| pentagona Schelpe & N.C. Anthony | N | Description, Image |
| quadripinnata (Forssk.) Kuhn | N,C,E | Description, Image |
| schimperi Kunze | N,C,E | Description, Image |
| viridis (Forssk.) Sw. var. viridis | W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| viridis (Forssk.) Sw. var. glauca (Sim) Schelpe & N.C. Anthony | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cheilanthes
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