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Cheilanthes hirta

Cheilanthes hirta
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  • Alsophila dregei grown tall
  • Asplenium cordatum
  • Blechnum attenuatum
  • Blechnum australe
  • Blechnum capense
  • Blechnum capense in enough shade and moisture
  • Blechnum tabulare
  • Blechnum tabulare fronds
  • Cheilanthes hirta
  • Cheilanthes hirta many erect fronds
  • Cheilanthes hirta on rocks
  • Elaphoglossum acrostichoides
  • Fern leaf
  • Ferns in habitat
  • Gleichenia polypodioides
  • Polystichum incongruum
  • Pteridium aquilinum

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Cheilanthes hirta is a small fern that emerges from a thin, scaled underground rhizome.

Several green fronds grow in a tuft from the base. Frond colour is sometimes tinted bluish or yellowish green, if not turned brown and dry from heat. Rain quickly revives the plant after drought and frond desiccation. Fresh growth is often seen side by side next to last season’s "dead" parts. This sheltered specimen under a south facing rock may have it easier for much of the average rain year.

The stipes or frond stalks are hairy and scaled. They are broad and green when young. The leaflets or pinnae are variously shaped, often rounded, fresh green and mostly sessile (Shearing and Van Heerden, 2008; JSTOR; www.zimbabweflora.co.za).

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