Aleuritopteris farinosa

by | Dec 12, 2014 | Ferns, New Collections | 2 comments

 

This species was treated as Cheilanthes farinosa in Smith & Mickel Pteridophytes of Mexico. It is perhaps not conspecific with A. farinosa which has a type from Yemen.

Collection data (M. Sundue, 3586 )

Classification & Common Names
Collection Data
  • Collection Date: 25-IV-2013
  • Collection Number: 3586
  • Primary collector: M. Sundue
  • Collected by: M. Sundue F. B. Matos & R. Torres C.
  • Determined by: M. Sundue
  • Habitat: Pine - Oak Forest
  • Habit: Lithophyte
  • Specimen locations: MEXU, VT

No mapped posts found (no valid coordinates).

Collection Location

About the Author

<a href="https://www.fernsoftheworld.com/author/msundue/" target="_self">Michael Sundue</a>

Michael Sundue

My field work is centered in Colombia, and Papua New Guinea. I am based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E). If you have any ferns that you want identified, please send them to me!

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2 Comments

  1. kerry rawlinson

    Common name?

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  2. Michael Sundue

    I don’t know of one. I guess you could call it the ‘silver-backed lip fern’. Cheilanthoides (including Aleuritopteris) are generally called the ‘lip ferns’, and farinose ferns are often called ‘silver backed’ when the farina is white like in this one.

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