lipfern

1. Any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes;
   Cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions (synset 113229603)
   is a type of: fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
   subtypes:

   • alabama lip fern, cheilanthes alabamensis, smooth lip fern - southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica
   • cheilanthes lanosa, hairy lip fern, wooly lip fern - small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly
   • cheilanthes eatonii, southwestern lip fern - lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds
   belongs to: cheilanthes, genus cheilanthes - small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
   same as: lip fern

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