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Core covillei clade
Myriopteris covillei
Myriopteris covillei, commonly known as Coville's lip fern, is a small fern found in the southwestern United States and on the Baja California peninsula, with an outlying population in southern Oregon. Its leaves grow in clusters and are dissected into beadlike segments; the undersides of the leaf axes are covered with whitish scales that conceal the green tissue of the leaf. One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was usually classified in the genus Cheilanthes as...
18 branches of this group, most-observed first
lace lip fern
speciesMyriopteris gracillima
Coville's lip fern
speciesMyriopteris covillei
Lindheimer's lipfern
speciesMyriopteris lindheimeri
Fendler's lipfern
speciesMyriopteris fendleri
Newberry's lip fern
speciesMyriopteris newberryi
Myriopteris myriophylla
speciesMyriopteris myriophylla
Woolly Lipfern
speciesMyriopteris tomentosa
Eaton's lipfern
speciesMyriopteris rufa
Cleveland's Lipfern
speciesMyriopteris clevelandii
Coastal Lip Fern
speciesMyriopteris intertexta
Wooton's lace fern
speciesMyriopteris wootonii
Yavapai lip fern
speciesMyriopteris yavapensis
Nit-Bearing Lip Fern
speciesMyriopteris lendigera
Villous Lipfern
speciesMyriopteris windhamii
Myriopteris mexicana
speciesMyriopteris mexicana
Myriopteris chipinquensis
speciesMyriopteris chipinquensis
Myriopteris marsupianthes
speciesMyriopteris marsupianthes
Myriopteris jamaicensis
speciesMyriopteris jamaicensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1670641.