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|accepted_name=Cheilanthes lendigera
|accepted_authority=(Cavanilles) Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Fil.
|place=328. 1806
|year=1806
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|common_names=Beaded lip fern
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Pteris lendigera
|authority=Cavanilles
|rank=species
|publication_title=Descr. Pl.,
|publication_place=268. 1802
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Myriopteris lendigera
|authority=(Cavanilles) J. Smith
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Pteridaceae;Cheilanthes;Cheilanthes lendigera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cheilanthes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cheilanthes lendigera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>long-creeping, 1–3 mm diam.; scales uniformly brown or with poorly defined, dark, central stripe, linear-lanceolate, straight to slightly contorted, loosely appressed, usually persistent. <b>Leaves</b> scattered to clustered, 5–30 cm; vernation noncircinate. <b>Petiole</b> usually dark brown, rounded adaxially. <b>Blade</b> ovate-deltate to oblong-lanceolate, usually 4-pinnate at base, 1.5–8 cm wide; rachis rounded adaxially, with scattered linear scales and dense monomorphic pubescence. <b>Pinnae</b> not articulate, dark color of stalk continuing into pinna base, basal pair not conspicuously larger than adjacent pair, usually equilateral, appearing glabrous or sparsely pubescent adaxially. <b>Costae</b> green adaxially for most of length; abaxial scales uniseriate and hairlike. <b>Ultimate</b> segments round to slightly oblong, beadlike, the largest 1–3 mm, abaxially sparsely to moderately pubescent with coarse hairs, adaxially glabrous. <b>False</b> indusia inframarginal, strongly differentiated, 0.25–0.5 mm wide, forming pouch with constricted aperture on abaxial surface of ultimate segments. <b>Sori</b> ± continuous around segment margins. <b>2n</b> = 120.</span><!--

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|phenology=Sporulating summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky slopes and ledges, usually on igneous substrates
|elevation=1300–2400 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Cheilanthes lendigera</i> has the small, beadlike ultimate segments characteristic of subgenus Physapteris; the prominent inframarginal false indusia and near absence of multiseriate costal scales serve to distinguish it from all other North American members of that group. T. Reeves (1979) suggested that <i>C. lendigera</i> is a fertile allotetraploid resulting from hybridization between the Mexican species <i>Cheilanthes</i> mexicana Davenport and C. marsupianthes (Fée) T. Reeves ex Windham (unpublished).</p>
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name=Cheilanthes lendigera
|authority=(Cavanilles) Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Myriopteris lendigera
|basionyms=Pteris lendigera
|family=Pteridaceae
|phenology=Sporulating summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky slopes and ledges, usually on igneous substrates
|elevation=1300–2400 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Fil.
|publication year=1806
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Cheilanthes
|species=Cheilanthes lendigera
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