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Cyathea exilis is a species of tree fern endemic to the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland Australia where it grows in vine forest on a substrate of sandstone. It is a rare plant known only from one location specifically by a stream in Mann Creek in the William Thompson Range. In its natural habitat C. exilis is reportedly accompanied by Pandanus and Calamus plants. The trunk is erect up to 4 m tall and 4–8 cm in diameter. It produces several buds often one at each stipe base.