Cyathea godmanii (Hook.) Domin
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Authority
Mickel, John T. & Smith, Alan R. 2004. The pteridophytes of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 88: 1-1054.
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Family
Cyatheaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Trunks to 10 m tall; stipes dark brown, muricate with small spines 1 mm or less long, densely clothed with large, pale, concolorous scales ca. 5 mm wide; blades 3–4 m long, tripinnatepinnatifid, pinnae nearly sessile, ca. 1 cm long, pinnules sessile, markedly reduced at pinna bases, broadest in the middle, ca. 2.5–3.2 cm wide, segments slightly ascending; rachises and costae with long, fine, lax hairs and conspicuous broad, pale scales, these ovate to ovate-lanceolate with finely fringed margins, scales varying to small and bullate, hairs on costules and major veins of surfaces; sori restricted to base of pinnulets (tertiary divisions), indusia absent, paraphyses longer than sporangia.
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Discussion
Alsophila godmanii Hook. in Hooker & Baker, Syn. Fil. 36. 1867. Type. Guatemala. Coba´n, Salvin & Godman s.n. (K!).
Alsophila mexicana Mart., Icon. Pl. Crypt. 70, t. 45. 1834, hom. illeg., non Cyathea mexicana Schldtl. & Cham., 1830. Cyathea valdecrenata Domin, Pterid. Dominica 263. 1929, nom. nov. Trichipteris mexicana (Mart.) R. M. Tryon, Contr. Gray Herb. 200: 44. 1970. Type. Mexico. Oaxaca: San Pablo de Teoxomulco, Karwinski s.n. (isotype P, not found, frag. F; L, photo P!).
Unverified, Doubtful, or Mistaken Reports. Ver (reported by Mickel & Beitel, 1988, but not verified). This rare species is distinct by its broad pale scales on the abaxial blade axes.
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Distribution
Wet montane forests; 1300–1900 m. Mexico; Guat, Hond, Pan.
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