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Floristic Inventory of the Bahama Archipelago Database Online

Cheilanthes microphylla (Sw.) Sw.
Southern lip-fern

Cheilanthes microphylla
Copyright by: Jimi Sadle, 2007
In habitat, Russell Key, Everglades National Park

Family: Pteridaceae

Group: Pteridophyte

Perennation: Perennial

Habit: Herb

Substrate: Terrestrial

Native Status: Native

Native Range: The West Indies, southeastern United States (Florida, Alabama), Mexico, Central America and South America.

Map of Locations [currently Florida only]

History in the Bahamas: Not listed by Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 24-26, with illustrations) for rocks in shaded areas at the mouth of caves in the Turks and Caicos Islands (region 1).

Other data on Cheilanthes microphylla available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Cheilanthes microphylla has been reported for the following 2 habitats in the Bahama Archipelago :
Cave Mouth
Coppice

All Images:

Cheilanthes microphylla
Copyright by: Jimi Sadle, 2007
In habitat, Russell Key, Everglades National Park
Cheilanthes microphylla
Copyright by: George D. Gann
image from Peterson s.n., FTG
collected in Citrus County, Florida, 1935
Cheilanthes microphylla
Copyright by: John Kunkel Small, 1931
From Ferns of Florida (in the public domain)