Cibotium

  • Authority

    Mickel, John T. & Smith, Alan R. 2004. The pteridophytes of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 88: 1-1054.

  • Family

    Cibotiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cibotium

  • Description

    Genus Description - Terrestrial; stems stout, horizontal to erect, forming stout trunks (ca. 1.5 m tall in ours, erect and taller in Asian and Pacific species, to 15 m), densely clothed with long, soft, golden hairs; fronds large, with dense masses of golden hairs at stipe bases, bipinnate-pinnatifid to tripinnate, coriaceous to chartaceous, glabrous, glaucous or green beneath; veins free; sori marginal, indusia bivalvate, the lower valve narrower, fitting inside the upper, both valves different color from laminar tissue; annuli oblique; x =68.

  • Discussion

    Type: Cibotium chamissoi Kaulf.

    Cibotium comprises about 10 species of eastern Asia, Hawaii, Mexico, and Central America. It occurs in middle elevation rain forests in the New World.