Cyathea divergens

Cyathea divergens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyatheales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Cyatheales

Familia: Cyatheaceae
Genus: Cyathea
Species: Cyathea divergens
Varietates: C. d. var. divergens – C. d. var. sipaliwiniana

Name

Cyathea divergens Kunze, Linnaea 9: 100 (1834).

Synonyms

• Alsophila petiolutata Karst. ex Mett.
• Alsophila subaspera Christ
• Cyathea calva H. Karst.
• Cyathea calva var. firma (Mett. ex Kuhn) Domin
• Cyathea divergens var. hirta I. Losch
• Cyathea equestris Kunze
• Cyathea firma Mett. ex Kuhn
• Cyathea globularis C. Presl
• Cyathea pastoensis Kuhn
• Cyathea pelliculosa Christ
• Cyathea petiolulata H. Karst.
• Cyathea petiolulata var. pastoensis Hieron.
• Cyathea subaspera (H. Christ) Domin

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America Regional: Mexico Mexico Central (Puebla), Mexico Northeast (Hidalgo), Mexico Gulf (Veracruz), Mexico Southwest (Guerrero, Oaxaca), Mexico Southeast (Chiapas). Continental: Southern America Regional: Central America Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama. Regional: Northern South America Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela. Regional: Western South America Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Kunze, G. 1834. Synopsis plantarum cryptogamicarum ab Eduardo Poeppig in Cuba Insula et in America Meridionali collectarum. Linnaea 9: 1–111. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Lehnert, M. 2014. Do you know Cyathea divergens (Cyatheaceae-Polypodiopsida)? Phytotaxa 161(1): 1–42. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.161.1.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Hassler, M. 2020. Cyathea divergens – World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World . In: Roskov Y., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J. & Penev L. (eds.) 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Jan 08.
• International Plant Names Index. 2020. Cyathea divergens. Published online. Accessed: Jan 08 2020.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Cyathea divergens in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Jan 08. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2020. Cyathea divergens. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 09 Jan 2020.

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