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|accepted_name=Cheilanthes bonariensis
|accepted_authority=(Willdenow) Proctor
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Inst. Jamaica, Sci. Ser.
|place=5(1): 15. 1953
|year=1953
}}
|common_names=Bonaire lip fern
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Acrostichum bonariense
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=5: 114. 1810
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Notholaena aurea
|authority=(Poiret) Desvaux
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Pteridaceae;Cheilanthes;Cheilanthes bonariensis
|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 bonariensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>short-creeping to compact, usually 4–8 mm diam.; scales bicolored, with broad, well-defined, dark, central stripe and narrow, light brown margins, narrowly lanceolate, slightly contorted, strongly appressed, persistent. <b>Leaves</b> clustered, 10–60 cm; vernation noncircinate. <b>Petiole</b> dark brown, rounded adaxially. <b>Blade</b> linear, pinnate-pinnatifid throughout, 1–4 cm wide; rachis rounded adaxially, lacking scales, with dense monomorphic pubescence. <b>Pinnae</b> articulate at swollen, hirsute nodes, basal pair slightly smaller than adjacent pair, ± equilateral, appearing hirsute adaxially. <b>Costae</b> absent. <b>Ultimate</b> segments elongate-deltate to ovate, not especially beadlike, the largest 1–7 mm, abaxially densely tomentose, adaxially hirsute. <b>False</b> indusia marginal, weakly differentiated, 0.05–0.25 mm wide. <b>Sori</b> ± continuous around segment margins. <b>Sporangia</b> containing 32 spores. n = 2n = 90, apogamous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Sporulating summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky slopes and ledges, found on a variety of substrates though rarely observed on limestone
|elevation=1200–2400 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Cheilanthes bonariensis</i> has been assigned to <i>Notholaena</i> in past treatments. It is distantly related (at best) to the species here included in <i>Notholaena</i>, however, and we concur with R. M. Tryon and A. F. Tryon (1982) that it should be transferred to <i>Cheilanthes</i>. Chromosomal studies (G. J. Gastony and M. D. Windham 1989) suggest that <i>C. bonariensis</i> is an apogamous triploid that arose through autopolyploidy. Further investigation is necessary to determine whether 64-spored, sexually reproducing populations of <i>C. bonariensis</i> are still extant.</p>
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name=Cheilanthes bonariensis
|authority=(Willdenow) Proctor
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Notholaena aurea
|basionyms=Acrostichum bonariense
|family=Pteridaceae
|phenology=Sporulating summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky slopes and ledges, found on a variety of substrates though rarely observed on limestone
|elevation=1200–2400 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Inst. Jamaica, Sci. Ser.
|publication year=1953
|special status=
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|genus=Cheilanthes
|species=Cheilanthes bonariensis
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