Species

Cosentinia vellea (Aiton) Tod. ssp. vellea

Synonyms	Acrostichum velleum Aiton Cheilanthes vellea (Aiton) F.Muell.
Common name
Description	Rhizome erect or shortly creeping; rhizome scales narrow, c 1 x c 0.5 mm, red-brown. Fronds monomorphic, densely tufted, 10-15 x 2-3.5 cm, stiff. Stipe 1-3 cm long, pale brown, densely set with hairs, but these may rub off. Lamina 2-pinnate, narrowly lanceolate in outline, 6-10 cm long, dark green, but the colour may be blurred by the dens long whitish to yellowish hairs on both surfaces; pinnae in 10-18 pairs, oblong or lanceolate in outline, 1-2 x 0.8-l cm, margin with deep blunt teeth to pinnatifid; ultimate lobes rounded to oblong in outline, 1-2 x 0.5-1 mm; venation obscure. Sori along the veins, covered by the dens hairs and therefor hardly visible; indusium ?
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Derivation
Habitat	Shaded rocks, probably on limestone.
Distribution worldwide	Africa, Southern Europe, Turkey, Middle East to western Himalaya.
Distribution in Africa	Algeria , Chad , Egypt , Ethiopia , Libya , Morocco and Western Sahara , Somalia , Sudan and South Sudan , Tunesia .
Growth form	Lithophytic.
Literature	Hedberg, I; Friis, Ib & Persson, E (2009) Lycopodiaceae to Pinaceae.Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea, vol.1 Pages 65 - 66. Roux, J.P. (2009) Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands. Strelitzia 23, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Pages 186 - 187.