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  • COMMON NAME: Lip ferns
  • ARABIC: بشاع، شعر الغول
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cheilanthes pteridioides C. Chr.
  • SYNONYMS: C. fragrans
  • FAMILY: PTERIDACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://botany.cz/cs/cheilanthes-pteridioides/
Densely tufted fern. Rhizome decumbent or ascending, slender; scales reddish-brown, linear soft, hair-pointed, darkening with age. Frond narrowly triangular in outline, 3-10 cm long, 1-3 cm broad, bipinnate-pinnatifid to tripinnate, ultimate pinnules ovate to suborbicular. Sori contiguous; indusia occasionally confluent, membranous, fringed.
Rock fissures and shady clefts.
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