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Myriopteris allosuroides is a small to medium Mexican fern in the maidenhair family, usually found on dry, rocky slopes over acidic, often basaltic rock. It is a rock-garden or xeric container fern that needs sharp drainage and little water.
Myriopteris allosuroides is a small to medium-sized fern endemic to Mexico. Its leaf is up to three times divided into elliptical segments. Unlike many members of its genus, its rachides are grooved on the upper surface and largely free of hairs or scales. One of the cheilanthoid lip ferns, it was usually classified in the genera Cheilanthes or Pellaea until 2013, when the genus Myriopteris was again recognized as separate from Cheilanthes. It typically grows on dry, rocky slopes over acidic, particularly basaltic, rock.
Myriopteris allosuroides grows throughout most of Mexico, but is absent from the Baja Peninsula and the northeastern and extreme southeastern provinces, the southward range ending in Veracruz and Oaxaca.
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