Tags: Fern.

Cyathea junghuhniana is a species of tree fern native to southern and central Sumatra and western Java where it grows in forest at an altitude of 1000-2000 m. The trunk of this species is erect and may be 2 m tall or more. Fronds are tripinnate and up to about 3 m long. The stipes of this species are persistent and form a skirt around the trunk. They are brown spiny and covered with glossy dark brown scales.

class
Leptosporangiate fern
division
Pteridophyte
family
Cyatheaceae
genus
Cyathea subg. Cyathea, Cyathea
kingdom
Plant
order
Cyatheales
synonym
*Alsophila lunulata (Blume 1828 (non Alsophila lunulata (G. Forster 1786) R. Brown 1810; quae Cyathea medullaris), *Alsophila junghuhniana (Kunze 1848), *Amphicosmia junghuhniana (Moore 1857), *Hemitelia javanica (Presl 1849), *Hemitelia junghuhniana (Mettenius 1859)

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Cyathea junghuhniana"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.