Cheilanthes sieberi Kunze APNI* 
Description: Rhizome short- to medium-creeping, densely covered with lanceolate, entire scales.
Fronds crowded, usually 15–25(-35) cm high, usually c. 3.5 cm wide; stipe red-brown to dark brown, shiny; lamina linear-lanceolate or ovate, 2- or 3-pinnate, glabrous or sparse to moderately dense hairs; ultimate segments sessile or very shortly stalked, 2–8 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, with margin incised and inrolled.
Sori usually remaining discrete, rarely confluent; spores spherical, verrucose, with varying amounts of globular, branched or reticulate deposits; black or brown.
Distribution and occurrence: Occurs throughout much of N.S.W.; all States, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Grows amongst rocks, widespread in open forest or woodland.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP, LHI
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. N.T. S.A. W.A.
Text by E.A. Brown (2004)
Taxon concept: T.C. Chambers & P.A. Farrant, Fl. Australia, vol. 48 (1998).
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Upper pinnule surface glabrous; lower pinnule surface glabrous or almost so. | subsp. sieberi |
| Upper and lower pinnule surfaces with an indumentum of twisted hairs. | subsp. pseudovellea |
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