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lace ferns
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lace ferns

Aspidotis

Aspidotis is a small genus of leptosporangiate ferns known commonly as laceferns. Most species are native to slopes, ridges, and rocky outcroppings, primarily in California and Mexico, although one species included in the genus by some authorities is widely distributed in eastern Africa.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

serpentine fern

speciesAspidotis densa

California lacefern

speciesAspidotis californica

Carlotta Hall's lace fern

speciesAspidotis carlotta-halliae

Aspidotis meifolia

speciesAspidotis meifolia

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 58759.