Southern Lipfern

Description

It is a fern with short rhizome to long creeping, thin, scales 1.5-2 mm, linear-lanceolate, whole, colorless to bicolor; Petiole of 0.5-0.8 (-1) times as long as the lamina, atropurp-reo, lustroso, terete, flaky, scales 0.5-1.5 mm, linear to filiform, pale orange, ascending-patents, slightly tortuous; Leaf 15-40 x 3-5 (-10) cm, lanceolate to oblong or narrowly elliptic, 2-pinnate-pinnat-fida, rarely 3-pinnate (basally), both surfaces peloas, or the hairy beam and the glabrous underside, the trichomes 0.1-0.5 mm, septate, whitish or hyaline, erect to patents, most numerous in the United States; Pinnae 10-15 pairs, 1.5-3.5 (-5) x 0.8-1.5 cm, lanceolate-oblong, equilateral; Last segments (pinnulas) 3-8 x 2-4 mm, oblong, With 2 or more wolves; Rachis and coasts as the petioles, but the coasts green and furrowed adaxially; Inconspicuous ribs, generally not visible, hairy; Indusio reflexo, scariosa, whole, erous or fimbriado; Light brown spores .Cheilanthes microphylla is characterized by the sheet 2-pinnately pinnatifida the apexes of the pinnae pinnatifid (differently), the hairy beams and pinnulae pinnatifid over a wolf. This species is often confused with Cheilanthes notholaenoides , which differs by having glabrous beams, only a wolf (basal and acroscopic) in the pinnulas and pinnacles of the same to such a shape. Because C. notholaenoides have only one basal lobe , the indusi are continuous from the apex of the pinnula to the base. In contrast, C. microphylla Indians are discontinuous (interrupted) in the breasts between the wolves.