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Argyrochosma limitanea
Also called Border Cloak Fern, Southwestern False Cloakfern, Southwestern Falsecloak Fern
A small, hardy desert fern from the southwestern US and northern Mexico that grows in rock crevices and on cliffs, usually on limestone. It needs sharp drainage and bright conditions, and is mainly grown by enthusiasts in rock gardens or pots.
Argyrochosma limitanea, the southwestern false cloak fern, is a species of fern native to the southwestern United States and Sonora, Mexico. It grows on calcareous rocks, and has small, finely-divided leaves with a leathery texture, dark axes connecting the leaf segments, and a heavy coating of white powder on the undersurface. It reproduces apogamously; two subspecies are recognized, which may have originated independently through the hybridization of other taxa not yet discovered. First described as a species in 1919, it was transferred to the new genus Argyrochosma in 1987.
Argyrochosma limitanea is known in the United States from San Bernardino County, California, east through Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah and Colorado, and Trans-Pecos Texas, and south into northern Mexico, extending as far southeast as Hidalgo. A. limitanea subsp. limitanea ranges from California through Utah and Colorado and into Mexico only in Sonora and Chihuahua. A. limitanea subsp. mexicana has a more easterly range, from Arizona through Texas and in Mexico from Chihuahua and Sinaloa east.
Argyrochosma chilensis · Argyrochosma connectens · Powdery false cloak fern · Argyrochosma delicatula · Fendler's false cloak fern · Argyrochosma formosa · Hairy false cloak fern · Jones' false cloak fern · Argyrochosma lumholtzii · Small-leaf false cloak fern · Argyrochosma nivea · Argyrochosma pallens
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