Botanical Name - Cheilanthes farinosa

----- Cheilanthes farinosa, Kaulf,

----- Rhizome stout, creeping, scaly Stipes reddish brown to black, naked or scaly near the base. Fronds triangular or lanceolate-triangular in outline, bipinnatifid, varying in size, basel pinnae auricled below ; underside thinly or thickly coated with white meal ; upper side naked. Rachis naked. Texture membranous to eathery. Indusium entire, even or toothed.

----- Confined in the State to Purantapally Paloncha.