/San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside Co., CA. 4-14-12 025.jpg) Leaves up to 7 3/4 in. long, 1 to 1 1/2 in. wide, with oval-shaped, subdivided segments with a thick coat of long, dense, matted, non-glandular white to tan hairs. Gray-green above from white hairs, tan below from dense tan hairs. Margin may be recurved especially when dessicated. Uncommonly hybridizes with M. covillei. (JM2) Rapidly resumes shape on rehydration. San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside County, CA. 4-14-12. © Joan Avise |
Newberry's Lip Fern Myriopteris newberryi Perennial growing from a rhizome. Occasional to common in shady sites on rocky slopes and outcrops, in cracks at at the base of boulders; in chaparral and oak woodland, northern foothills, Santa Ana Mountains and scarce in San Joaquin Hills (Roberts). Pteridaceae Back to Ferns of Orange County, California |
/San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside Co., CA. 4-14-12 021.jpg) Sporangia, 32- or 64-spored, in discrete patches may or may not be visible at the margin of the segments (The lip fern is named from the location of sporangia). San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside County, CA. 4-14-12. © Joan Avise |
/San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside Co., CA. 4-14-12 020.jpg) San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside County, CA. 4-14-12. © Joan Avise |
/San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside Co., CA. 4-14-12 018.jpg) San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside County, CA. 4-14-12. © Joan Avise |
/San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside Co., CA. 4-14-12 016.jpg) San Juan Loop Trail, Ortega Oaks, Riverside County, CA. 4-14-12. © Joan Avise |
 San Juan Loop Trail, 4-5-12. © Ron Vanderhoff. |
 San Juan Loop Trail, 4-5-12. © Ron Vanderhoff. |
 Ortega Falls, 2-20-11. © Ron Vanderhoff. |
 Sheep Hills, Aliso Viejo, 3-1-12. © Ron Vanderhoff. |