Cheilanthoideae
English: Cheilanthoid ferns.
Botany
Ferns; primarily epipetric in semiarid habitats.
Leaves: mostly with well-developed scales or trichomes; often bipinnate or otherwise highly compound.
Sporangia: mostly born in marginal sori with false indusia that are +/- continuous around the leaf margins.
Taxonomy
Cheilanthoideae is a subfamily in Pteridaceae.
Genera: Adiantopsis, Aleuritopteris, Argyrochosma, Aspidotis, Astrolepis, Baja, Bommeria, Calciphilopteris, Cheilanthes, Cheiloplecton, Doryopteris, Gaga, Hemionitis, Lytoneuron, Mickelopteris, Mildella, Myriopteris, Notholaena, Oeosporangium, Ormopteris, Paragymnopteris, Pellaea, Pentagramma, Trachypteris
◦ Argyrochosma: False cloak ferns
◦ Aspidotis: Lace ferns
◦ Astrolepis: Cloak ferns
◦ Cheilanthes: Lip ferns
◦ Notholaena: Cloak ferns
◦ Pellaea: Cliff brakes
Included
Hemionitidoid ferns; terrestrial, epipetric or epiphytic in moist or semiarid habitats; leaves simple, pinnate, or more compound; sporangia born in linear non-marginal, exindusiate sori or sometimes in marginal sori
Genera:
◦ Anogramma
◦ Cryptogramma: Rock brakes
◦ Eriosorus
◦ Hemionitis
◦ Jamesonia
◦ Pityrogramma: Gold ferns.