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Lanosa clade
Myriopteris lanosa
Myriopteris lanosa, the hairy lip fern, is a medium-sized fern of the eastern United States. The leaves are twice-divided into lanceolate or oblong segments, and are sparsely covered in hairs, but lack scales, hence its common name. One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was usually classified in the genus Cheilanthes as Cheilanthes lanosa until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It typically grows in shallow, dry, soil, often in...
7 branches of this group, most-observed first

Parry's lip fern
speciesMyriopteris parryi

Hairy Lip Fern
speciesMyriopteris lanosa

Fee's lip fern
speciesMyriopteris gracilis

viscid lip fern
speciesMyriopteris viscida

Cooper's Lip Fern
speciesMyriopteris cooperae

Myriopteris rawsonii
speciesMyriopteris rawsonii

Myriopteris longipila
speciesMyriopteris longipila
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 1670787.