Cyathea squamulata

Tags: Fern.

Cyathea squamulata is a species of tree fern native the Malay Peninsula Sumatra Java Borneo and the southern Philippines including the Sulu Archipelago where it grows in forest from the lowlands to an altitude of about 1500 m. The trunk is erect and up to 2 m tall. Fronds are pinnate or bipinnate and approximately 1.5 m long. The stipe is covered in densely packed firm medium brown scales. Sori occur near the fertile pinnule midvein and lack indusia.

class

Leptosporangiate fern

division

Pteridophyte

family

Cyatheaceae

genus

Cyathea sect. Sphaeropteris, Cyathea

kingdom

Plant

order

Cyatheales

synonym

*''Cystopteris squamulata (Presl 1836), *Alsophila sarawakensis (C. Christensen 1913), *Alsophila sp. 1 (Blume 1844), *Alsophila squamulata (Blume) W. J. Hooker 1866), *Alsophila squamulata (Wallich 1829), *Athyrium squamulata (Presl 1836 ex err.), *Cyathea deuterobrooksii (Copeland 1929), *Cyathea glabrescens (Domin 1930), *Cyathea ridleyi (Copeland 1909), *Cyathea xanthina (Domin 1930), *Gymnosphaera squamulata (Blume 1828), *Polypodium comosum (Wallich 1828), *Sphaeropteris squamulata (Blume) Tryon 1970), *Cyathea brooksii (Copeland 1911 (non Cyathea brooksii Maxon 1909), *Alsophila comosa (Wallich 1829 (non Alsophila comosa Scott 1874; quae Cyathea khasyana non Alsophila comosa C. Christensen 1897; quae Cyathea elmeri)