Cyathea hancockii

Tags: Fern.

Cyathea hancockii is a species of tree fern native to the Ryukyu Islands Japan Taiwan and Hong Kong. The specific epithet hancockii commemorates William Hancock (1847-1914) who collected numerous plants in Japan China and Southeast Asia. It grows in forest on stream banks and in forest margins at an elevation of about 600 m or higher.

class

Leptosporangiate fern

division

Pteridophyte

family

Cyatheaceae

genus

Cyathea subg. Cyathea, Cyathea

kingdom

Plant

order

Cyatheales

synonym

*Alsophila denticulata (Baker 1885 (non Cyathea denticulata J. G. Goldmann in Meyen 1843; quae Cyathea delgadii), *Alsophila acaulis (Makino 1914), *Dryopteris hancockii (Copeland) Nakai 1927), *Dryopteris taitunensis (Koidzumi 1924), *Gymnosphaera denticulata (Baker) Copeland 1947)