Definition of Genus Cheilanthes

1. Noun. Small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae.

Exact synonyms: Cheilanthes
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Member holonyms: Lip Fern, Lipfern, Cheilanthes Gracillima, Lace Fern

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cheilanthes

genus Chalcostigma
genus Chamaea
genus Chamaecrista
genus Chamaecyparis
genus Chamaecytisus
genus Chamaedaphne
genus Chamaeleo
genus Chamaeleon
genus Chamaemelum
genus Chara
genus Charadrius
genus Charina
genus Charronia
genus Chateura
genus Chauna
genus Cheilanthes (current term)
genus Cheiranthus
genus Chelidonium
genus Chelifer
genus Chelone
genus Chelonia
genus Chelydra
genus Chenopodium
genus Chilomastix
genus Chilomeniscus
genus Chilomycterus
genus Chilopsis
genus Chimaera
genus Chimaphila
genus Chimonanthus

Literary usage of Genus Cheilanthes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"... form members of the genus Cheilanthes published the same year. ... in the interval between the printing of the genus Cheilanthes in Swartz' Synop. Fil. ..."

2. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"This species is so different in many respects to the genus Cheilanthes, that it has been called an Adiantum by Linnaeus, ..."

3. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"... that very little of novelty has been left for succeeding Botanists. In the arrangement of the genus Cheilanthes in the Genera and Species ..."

4. With the Flowers and Trees in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1914)
"The genus Cheilanthes, sparingly represented in the East, is a somewhat common one in California where ten species, all distinct from the eastern, ..."

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