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lip fern - any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions | ||
lipfern | ||
fern any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | ||
cheilanthes, genus cheilanthes small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae | ||
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 |