Cyathea cruciata (Desv.) Lehnert (2012:25)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Hemitelia cruciata Desv.; Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris 6, 2: 320 (1827); Cnemidaria cruciata (Desv.) Stolze; Fieldiana, Bot. 37: 65 (1974); Hemitelia leprieurii Kunze; Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 296 (1844); Cyathea leprieurii (Kunze) Domin; Pteridophyta 264 (1929), et Acta Bot. Bohem. 9: 88-174 (1930)

C. ameristoneura is likely either a synonym of this species or C. spectabilis (Cremers & Boudrie 2007).

Conservation Status

Missing (source)

Last record: 1800's (Cremers & Boudrie, 2007).

Distribution

French Guiana & Guyana

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Desvaux, A. N. (1827). Prodrome de la famille des fougères. Mémoires de la Société Linnéene de Paris 6: 171-337.

Other references:

Cremers, Georges and Boudrie, Michel. (2007). Ptéridophytes de Guyane française non récoltées depuis plus d'un siècle ou récemment retrouvées. Acta Botanica Gallica 153(1): 3-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/12538078.2006.10515521

Cremers, Georges and Boudrie, Michel. (2007). Les Ptéridophytes des Guyanes - Les spécimens de référence de Aublet (1775) à nos jours. Le Journal de Botanique de la Société Botanique de France 40: 3-111.

Domin, C. (1929). Pteridophyta. Prague: Ceske Akademie. 276 pp.

Hassler, Michael. (2004-2023). World Ferns. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Version 17.2; last update Oct. 18th, 2023. Available at: https://www.worldplants.de/ferns/ [Accessed 21 October 2023]

Kunze, G. (1844). Die Farnkräuter in colorirten Abbildungen. Botanische Zeitung (Berlin) 2: 241-616.

Large, Mark F. and Braggins, John E. (2004). Tree Ferns. CSIRO Publishing. 359 pp.

Lehnert, M. (2012). A synopsis of the species of Cyathea (Cyatheaceae-Polypodiopsida) with pinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid fronds. Phytotaxa 61: 17-36. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.61.1.2

Roskov Y. & al. (eds.). (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Stolze, Robert G. (1974). A taxonomic revision of the genus Cnemidaria (Cyatheaceae). Fieldiana, Botany 37: 1-98.

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp. [as Cyathea leprieurii]

Weatherby, C. A. (1936). On the types of Desvaux's American species of ferns. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 114: 13-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41764236

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