Wavy Cloak Fern
Astrolepis sinuata
Photographed in King's Canyon, Tucson Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona. February 2012.
FERN: In the shadows of boulders and cliffs where the sun shines
infrequently during the cooler months. Fronds may reach
24 cm in length. Obscure once extended drought has set in.
LEAVES: The fronds are long and straight-narrow with oval leaflets that
are wavy-margined. The upper surfaces are green and the lower whitish.
UNARMED
RANGE: In dry mountains from the Sonoran Desert into the Chihuahuan
Desert of western Texas and south into Mexico.