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Cheilanthes lasiophylla Pic.Serm.
Woolly Cloak Fern

Reference
Webbia 8:209 (1951)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Rhizomatous, perennial, herb or (fern), to 0.25 m high, blade 2-pinnate at the base, rachis with scales and woolly hairs branched basally; sori unprotected. Sandy loam, red clayey sand. On rocky slopes and in rock crevices.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 October 1997
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Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Jarrah Forest, Little Sandy Desert, Mallee, Murchison, Northern Kimberley, Pilbara, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Cape Range, Carnegie, Central, Chichester, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Fitzgerald, Hamersley, Katanning, Lateritic Plain, Mann-Musgrave Block, Merredin, Mitchell, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Cross, Tallering, Trainor, Western Mallee, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Cue, Dalwallinu, Dundas, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Kalamunda, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kellerberrin, Kondinin, Leonora, Meekatharra, Menzies, Mingenew, Mount Magnet, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Murchison, Ngaanyatjarraku, Port Hedland, Ravensthorpe, Sandstone, Upper Gascoyne, Westonia, Wiluna, Wongan-Ballidu, Wyndham-East Kimberley, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.