Cheilanthes fimbriata (A.R.Sm.) Mickel & Beitel
Descripción
Rhizomes compact to short-creeping, horizontal, 1–2 mm diam.; rhizome scales linear, concolorous tan to orange, ca. 3 mm long, entire; fronds 8–32 cm long, clumped to approximate; stipes ca. 1⁄3 the frond length, atropurpureous to black, terete, clothed with appressed tan hairs and very narrow scales (mostly only 2 cells wide); blades lanceolate, bipinnate, rarely to bipinnatepinnatifid, subcoriaceous; segments elliptic, often auriculate to shallowly lobed; pinnae 10–17 pairs, equilateral; adaxial surfaces with lax white segmented hairs 0.3–0.5 mm long, sparse in center, more abundant near margins; abaxial surfaces with short uniform hairs 0.3–0.5 mm long and scattered linear scales on axes; sori at vein ends, laminar margins curved, fimbriate, somewhat differentiated into 0.3 mm wide thin, pale, ciliate, false indusia; spores tan.A
Ejemplar revisado
Chis (Breedlove 26976, DS, 36556, DS; Münch 184, DS). Oax (Conzatti 3774, US; Hallberg 1656, NY; Mickel 1483, NY; Rose & Rose 11350, NY, US). QR (Montgomery 87-16, NY). Tam (Palmer 18, NY). Yuc (Gaumer 534, NY).
Unverified, Doubtful, or Mistaken Reports. Camp (Zamora 4855, UACAM, XAL, cited by Palacios Rios, 1997, but not verified). Ver (reported by Mickel and Beitel, 1988, not verified, but likely).
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Unverified, Doubtful, or Mistaken Reports. Camp (Zamora 4855, UACAM, XAL, cited by Palacios Rios, 1997, but not verified). Ver (reported by Mickel and Beitel, 1988, not verified, but likely).
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Elevación
0 – 1000 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
On limestone at lower elevation of Atlantic slope.A
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
Cheilanthes fimbriata closely resembles C. microphylla, but has well modified, long-ciliate indusia.A