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Ferns, Part 2
Cheilanthes to Dicksonia

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Image 1. Cheilanthes bonariensis, called the golden lip fern or golden lipfern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 2. Cheilanthes bonariensis, called the golden lip fern or golden lipfern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 3. Underside of Cheilanthes bonariensis, called the golden lip fern or golden lipfern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 4. Underside of Cheilanthes bonariensis, called the golden lip fern or golden lipfern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 5. Cheilanthes fendleri, called Fendler's lip fern or Fendler's lipfern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 6. Cheilanthes fendleri, called Fendler's lip fern or Fendler's lipfern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 7. Underside of Cheilanthes fendleri, called Fendler's lip fern or Fendler's lipfern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 8. Underside of Cheilanthes fendleri, called Fendler's lip fern or Fendler's lipfern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 9. Cheilanthes gracillima, called the lace lip fern, or lace lipfern,
growing in a crack in Sierra Nevada granite


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Image 10. Cheilanthes intertexta, called the coastal lip fern or coastal lipfern
Photograph from the Sierra Nevada, California


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Image 11. Cryptogramma cascadensis called the Cascade parsely fern or Cascade rockbrake
Photograph from the Sierra Nevada, California


Image 12. Cryptogramma sp. An unidentified species of parsley fern or rock brake
Photograph from the Sierra Nevada, California


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Image 13. Cystopteris fragilis, called the brittle bladder-fern or common fragile fern
Photograph from the Sierra Nevada, California
Superficially it looks like Woodsia scopulina, or cliff fern, but there are differences in the sori.
Thanks to Carl Rothfels for the identification

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Image 14. Underside of Cystopteris fragilis, called the brittle bladder-fern or common fragile fern
Photograph from the Sierra Nevada, California


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Image 15. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 16. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 17. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 18. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 19. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 20. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 21. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 22. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden

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Image 23. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 24. Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 25. Underside of Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden


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Image 26. Underside of Dicksonia antarctica, called the Tasmanian tree fern, soft tree fern or man fern
Photograph from a botanical garden

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