Botanical Name - Cheilanthes albomarginata

----- Cheilanthes albomarginata, Clarke.

----- Rhizome creeping, scaly ; scales in tufts, hair pointed ; stipe up to 10 in., reddish brown, glabrous, covered below with white margined lanceolate scales, fronds deltoid to deltoid-lanceolate ; when young, covered beneath with lanceolate brown scales and whitish or yellowish powder, glabrous when old axcept rachises and cosae ; lower pinnae half deltoid. Indusium lacerate margined.

----- This species resembles C. farinosa, but differs in that, (a) it is small in habit, (b) fronds are smaller, more lanceolate than triangular, (c) has pale margined scales on the stipe, rachises and costae and (d) the indusium is much lacerated.

----- It is found in the State in Purantapalli Paloncha.