English: Lip fern.
Synonym: Aleuritopteris argentea
Genus: 40 species.
TaxonomyAleuritopteris is a genus of ferns in the
Cheilanthoideae subfamily of the
Pteridaceae.
Aleuritopteris is one of a number of genera split off from Cheilanthes in some approaches,including the Pteridophyte
Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Molecular phylogenetic studies have suggested that it is not monophyletic.
As of August 2019,
Plants of the World Online includes Aleuritopteris within Hermionitis, a much smaller
Cheilanthoideae genus in PPG I.
Allosorus was recognized as a separate genus in PPG I, but was included in Aleuritopteris by the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World as of January 2020 on the grounds that it was wrongly lectotypified.