English: Wavy scaly cloakfern; Cloak fern.
Synonym: Cheilanthes sinuata.
Region: Mexico, North America.
Habitat: hardy; sun tolerant; drought tolerant.
Use: ornamental in containers, rock garden.

BotanyFern; evergreen; ± 50 cm tall, 30 cm wide.
Roots: under a rock or in crevices in the cool shade with quick draining soil; short creeping rhizome.
Leaves: thick; sage green; with a fussy white back that turns to cinnamon; long; narrow; piannae ovate, sinuate-lobed; abaxial surface is rough, brown and covered with ciliated scales; adaxial scalesi, mostly deciduous and only 1 to 2 cells wide.
Sori: without indusia run along the veins near the margins.