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  • COMMON NAME: Lip ferns
  • ARABIC: أبو صوفه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cheilanthes vellea (Aiton) Domin
  • SYNONYMS: C. catanensis , Notholaena vella.
  • FAMILY: PTERIDACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Careeper
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • 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.
A dwarf woolly fern. Fronds dark green lanceolate, pinnate or bipinnate up to 12 cm long, and hairy on the upper surface, covered with tangled wool on the lower surface; pinnules small, round or ovate, entire.
Shady rock fissures in the mountains.