Cyathea affinis is a variable species of tree fern native to Fiji Samoa the Cook Islands Austral Islands Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. The trunk of this plant is erect and 2-6 m tall. Fronds are bipinnate and 2-3 m in length. The rachis and stipe are pale to brown in colour or flushed with red towards the pinnule rachis. The stipe is sparsely covered in narrow basal scales which are pale to dark and have broad fragile edges.
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