Cheilanthes

Accepted species 40 Documented here 7 Family Pteridaceae

Accepted species 40 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cheilanthes sieberi Kunze 196 documented
Cheilanthes distans (R.Br.) Mett. 131 documented
Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia H.Quirk & T.C.Chambers 117 documented
Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. 23 documented
Cheilanthes leucopoda Link 14 documented
Cheilanthes nudiuscula (R.Br.) T.Moore 12 documented
Cheilanthes brownii Domin 3 documented
Cheilanthes fractifera R.M.Tryon 2 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes lasiophylla Pic.Serm. 2 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes micropteris Sw. 1 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes adiantoides T.C.Chambers & P.A.Farrant 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes angustifrondosa Alston 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes arequipensis (Maxon) R.M.Tryon & A.F.Tryon 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes boivinii Mett. ex Kuhn 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes bolborrhiza Mickel & Beitel 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes boliviana C.Chr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes bonapartei J.P.Roux 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes caudata R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes contigua Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes ecuadorensis Windham & K.Sosa 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes fragillima F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes hieronymi Herter 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes incarum Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes juergensii Rosenst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes laciniata Sodiro 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes lonchophylla (R.M.Tryon) R.M.Tryon & A.F.Tryon 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes madagascariensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes nitida (R.Br.) P.S.Green 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes obducta Mett. 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes pantanalensis E.L.M.Assis, Ponce & Labiak 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes perlanata (Pic.Serm.) Kornaƛ 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes peruviana (Desv.) T.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes praetermissa D.L.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes prenticei Luerss. 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes pumilio F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes sarmientoi Ponce 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes scariosa (Sw.) C.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes squamosa Gillies ex Hook. & Grev. 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes valdiviana Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Cheilanthes volcanensis de la Sota 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.