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|accepted_name=Cheilanthes microphylla
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Fil.
|place=127. 1806
|year=1806
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|common_names=Southern lip fern
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Adiantum microphyllum
|authority=Swartz
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|hierarchy=Pteridaceae;Cheilanthes;Cheilanthes microphylla
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cheilanthes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cheilanthes microphylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>long-creeping, 1–3 mm diam.; scales uniformly brown or slightly darker at base, linear-lanceolate, straight to slightly contorted, loosely appressed, persistent. <b>Leaves</b> usually scattered, 8–40 cm; vernation noncircinate. <b>Petiole</b> black, rounded adaxially. <b>Blade</b> lanceolate to linear-oblong, 2-pinnate-pinnatifid to 3-pinnate at base, 1.5–6 cm wide; rachis rounded adaxially, lacking scales, with dimorphic pubescence, abaxially sparsely hirsute, adaxially covered with tortuous, appressed hairs. <b>Pinnae</b> not articulate, dark color of stalk continuing into pinna base, basal pair often slightly larger than adjacent pair, ± equilateral, appearing glabrous or sparsely pubescent adaxially. <b>Costae</b> black adaxially for most of length; abaxial scales absent. <b>Ultimate</b> segments narrowly elliptic to elongate-deltate, not beadlike, the largest 3–7 mm, abaxially and adaxially sparsely hirsute to glabrescent. <b>False</b> indusia marginal to obscurely inframarginal, somewhat differentiated, 0.1–0.4 mm wide. <b>Sori</b> somewhat discontinuous, often concentrated on interrupted lateral lobes. <b>Sporangia</b> containing 64 spores. <b>2n</b> = 116.</span><!--

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|phenology=Sporulating summer–fall.
|habitat=Calcareous rock outcrops and shell mounds
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>In the flora, the primarily Caribbean <i>Cheilanthes microphylla</i> is known from a small number of localities on the Florida peninsula. This restricted distribution, combined with its smaller stems, mostly black costae, and 64-spored sporangia, helps to separate <i>Cheilanthes microphylla</i> from the closely related <i>C. alabamensis</i>.</p>
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name=Cheilanthes microphylla
|author=
|authority=(Swartz) Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|basionyms=Adiantum microphyllum
|family=Pteridaceae
|phenology=Sporulating summer–fall.
|habitat=Calcareous rock outcrops and shell mounds
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Fil.
|publication year=1806
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|genus=Cheilanthes
|species=Cheilanthes microphylla
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