Choristosoria glauca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polypodiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Polypodiales

Cheilanthes glauca (Sim) Windham & Schuettp., Taxon 74(2): 276 (2025).

Basionym
- Pellaea hastata var. glauca Sim, Handb. Ferns Kaffraria 30, pl. 19 (1891).
  - Type: South-west of King Williamstown, T.R. Sim s.n. (Holotype: PRE 0092565).
Homotypic
- Pellaea viridis var. glauca (Sim) Sim, Ferns S. Afr., ed. 2: 209, 210, pl. 97 (1915).
- Cheilanthes viridis var. glauca (Sim) Schelpe & N.C.Anthony, Contr. Bolus Herb. 10: 155 (1982).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa
- Regional: East Tropical Africa
  - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.
- Regional: South Tropical Africa
  - Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
- Regional: Southern Africa
  - Botswana, Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Northern Provinces.
- Regional: Western Indian Ocean
  - Mauritius.

Schuettpelz, E., Windham, M.D., Prado, J., Hooper, E.A., Yatskievych, G.A., Huiet, L., Picard, K.T. & Pryer, K.M. 2025. A phylogenetically informed generic reclassification of the hemionitid ferns (Pteridaceae: Cheilanthoideae). Taxon 74(2): 260–291. DOI: 10.1002/tax.13314 Reference page.
Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. & Anthony, N.C. 1982. New species and new combinations in African Pteridophyta and Orchidaceae. Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium 10: 143–161. Reference page.

Roux, J.P. 2009. Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands. Strelitzia 23: 1–296. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. ISBN 978-1-919976-48-8. ARK: /t0ps2bc93 PDF Reference page.