Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw.
Rhizome shortly creeping, ascending, densely clad in pale to ferruginous hair-like paleae, 3-5 mm. long; stipites clustered. Stipes stiff, wiry, erect, dark-brown, lustrous, (5)-15-(25) cm., glab. except at paleate base. Rhachis similar to stipes, with distant to approximate, subopp. to alt. pinnae. Lamina ovate-deltoid, (3)-10-20-(25) × (1)-2-5-(10)cm., submembr., dull to rather bright green, glab. or nearly so, 2-3-pinnate. Primary pinnae stalked, up to 6 × 2 cm., ovate-oblong to deltoid, again pinnate. Secondary pinnae up to 1 cm. or more long, ovate-oblong, pinnatifid to pinnatisect; final segs oblong, crenate to subentire. Sori us. coalescent and extending along whole of margin, ± protected by reflexed crenulate edges.
DIST.: N., S. Coastal to subalpine rocky places from lat. 37° 30' southwards. Also in Australia, Malaya, India, China.
