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Argyrochosma microphylla
Also called Smallleaf False Cloakfern, Smallleaf Falsecloak Fern
Argyrochosma microphylla, the small-leaf false cloak fern, is a species of fern native to New Mexico, Texas and northern Mexico. It grows on limestone rocks and cliffs, and has finely-divided leaves with small leaf segments, often folded in half when dry, which lack the white powder present on the leaf underside of many related species. First described as a species in 1869, it was transferred to the new genus Argyrochosma in 1987.
It prefers high light, and moist-dry, well-drained garden soil with sand, perhaps of high pH.
Argyrochosma microphylla is known in the United States from southeastern New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas, with outlying stations as far as Brazos County, Texas and Bernalillo County, New Mexico. In Mexico, it ranges across the northern states from Sonora to Nuevo León and south into Zacatecas.
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 · Southwestern false cloak fern · Argyrochosma lumholtzii · Argyrochosma nivea · Argyrochosma pallens
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