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Notholaena
Notholaena, cloak fern, is a genus of ferns in the Cheilanthoideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae. Ferns of this genus are mostly epipetric (growing on rock) or occurring in coarse, gravelly soils, and are most abundant and diverse in the mountain ranges of warm arid or semiarid regions. They typically have a creeping or erect rhizome and leaves that are pinnatifid to pinnate-pinnatifid with marginal sori protected by a false indusium formed from the reflexed margin of...
31 branches of this genus, most-observed first
star cloak fern
speciesNotholaena standleyi
California Cloak-fern
speciesNotholaena californica
Copeland's Cloak Fern
speciesNotholaena copelandii
Lemmon's Cloak Fern
speciesNotholaena lemmonii
Notholaena brachypus
speciesNotholaena brachypus
Scaled Cloak Fern
speciesNotholaena aschenborniana
Gray's Cloak Fern
speciesNotholaena grayi
Notholaena sulphurea
speciesNotholaena sulphurea
Notholaena candida
speciesNotholaena candida
Notholaena bryopoda
speciesNotholaena bryopoda
Notholaena galeottii
speciesNotholaena galeottii
Gregg's cloak fern
speciesNotholaena greggii
Notholaena trichomanoides
speciesNotholaena trichomanoides
Maxon's cloak fern
speciesNotholaena neglecta
Notholaena leonina
speciesNotholaena leonina
Notholaena schaffneri
speciesNotholaena schaffneri
Notholaena meridionalis
speciesNotholaena meridionalis
Nealley's cloak fern
speciesNotholaena nealleyi
Notholaena aurantiaca
speciesNotholaena aurantiaca
Notholaena ochracea
speciesNotholaena ochracea
Notholaena weatherbiana
speciesNotholaena weatherbiana
Notholaena jacalensis
speciesNotholaena jacalensis
Notholaena rigida
speciesNotholaena rigida
Notholaena affinis
speciesNotholaena affinis
Notholaena revoluta
speciesNotholaena revoluta
Notholaena galapagensis
speciesNotholaena galapagensis
Notholaena jaliscana
speciesNotholaena jaliscana
Notholaena aureolina
speciesNotholaena aureolina
Notholaena rosei
speciesNotholaena rosei
Notholaena brevistipes
speciesNotholaena brevistipes
Mexican cloak fern
speciesNotholaena aliena
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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