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Cyathea kermadecensis is a species of tree fern endemic to Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands where it is locally common in damp and sometimes drier forest and scrub. The trunk of this plant is erect slender and up to 20 m tall. It is often covered with scars of old stipe-bases. Fronds are tripinnate and up to 4 m in length. The rachis and stipe are both brown in colouration and bear basal scales that are brown glossy and often twisted.

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