Aleuritopteris

Aleuritopteris
Illustration of Aleuritopteris argentea (formerly Cheilanthes argentea), the silver cloak fern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Subfamily: Cheilanthoideae
Genus: Aleuritopteris
Fée
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Allosorus Bernh.
  • Leptolepidium K.H.Shing & S.K.Wu
  • Sinopteris C.Chr. & Ching.

Aleuritopteris is a genus of ferns in the Cheilanthoideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae. As with some other genera of the Cheilanthoideae, molecular phylogenetic studies have suggested that it is not monophyletic, and so may need to be circumscribed differently in future.

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