{{Short description|Species of fern}} {{Speciesbox | image = Thelypterispuberula-sonor.jpg | image_caption =''Christella puberula'' var. ''sonorensis'' | status = {{TNCStatus}} | status_system = TNC | taxon = Christella puberula | authority = Á.Löve & D.Löve<ref name=CFLW/> | synonyms = {{Species list |Aspidium orizabae|Fée |Aspidium puberulum|(Baker) Fée |Dryopteris augescens var. puberula|(Baker) C.Chr. |Dryopteris feei|C.Chr. |Dryopteris orizabae|(Fée) C.Chr. |Dryopteris puberula|(Baker) Kuntze |Filix-mas augescens var. puberula|(Baker) Farw. |Lastrea orizabae|(Fée) Moore |Nephrodium puberulum|Baker |Thelypteris augescens var. puberula|(Baker) Munz & I.M.Johnst. |Thelypteris feei|(C.Chr.) Moxley |Thelypteris orizabae|(Fée) Christenh. |Thelypteris puberula|(Baker) Morton }} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=CFLW/> }}

'''''Christella puberula''''', synonym '''''Thelypteris puberula''''',<ref name=CFLW/> is a species of fern known by the common name '''showy maiden fern'''.<ref>{{PLANTS|id=THPU|taxon=Thelypteris puberula|accessdate=9 December 2015}}</ref> The variety '''''Ch.&nbsp;puberula'' var. ''sonorensis''''' is known by the common name '''Sonoran maiden fern'''.<ref name="jepson">[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?153,154,0,156 Jepson]. Accessed 12.1.2011</ref>

It is native to southwestern North America and Central America, from the foothills and deserts of California and Arizona south through Mexico to Costa Rica.<ref name="jepson"/> It grows in canyons, streambanks, and seeps in several types of habitat. It is found at {{convert|50|-|550|m|ft}} in elevation.<ref name="jepson"/>

==Description== ''Christella puberula'' produces a number of regularly shaped, equally spaced green leaves with numerous long, flat, lance-shaped leaflets. One leaf may exceed 1.5 meters in length, and the thick leaflets may be over 20 centimeters long. The undersides of the leaflets are hairy, especially on the indusia covering the spore-bearing sori.

==References== <references>

<ref name=CFLW>{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Hassler |first1=Michael |last2=Schmitt |first2=Bernd |date=January 2020 |contribution=Christella puberula |title=Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World |at=8.20 |url=https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/ |accessdate=2020-01-12 |name-list-style=amp |archive-date=2017-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902225743/http://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Thelypteris puberula|'''Thelypteris puberula'''}} *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?153,154,0,156 Jepson Manual Treatment: ''Thelypteris puberula'' var. ''sonorensis''] *[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233501297 Flora of North America] *[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-genre=Plant&where-taxon=Thelypteris+puberula+var.+sonorensis ''Thelypteris puberula'' - U.C. Photo gallery]

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Category:Thelypteridaceae Category:Ferns of the United States Category:Ferns of California Category:Flora of Central America Category:Flora of Mexico Category:Flora of Northwestern Mexico Category:Flora of Arizona Category:Flora of Costa Rica Category:Flora of Sonora Category:Flora of California Category:Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands Category:Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains Category:Natural history of the Transverse Ranges

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