
Cibotium (from Greek , kibṓtion, "little chest" or "box"), also known as manfern, is a genus of 11 species of tropical tree ferns. It is the only genus in family Cibotiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Cibotioideae of a very broadly defined family Cyatheaceae, the family placement used for the genus in Plants of the World Online .
Cibotium (from Greek , kibṓtion, "little chest" or "box"), also known as manfern, is a genus of 11 species of tropical tree ferns. It is the only genus in family Cibotiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the family may be treated as the subfamily Cibotioideae of a very broadly defined family Cyatheaceae, the family placement used for the genus in Plants of the World Online .
==Species== , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species and hybrids: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- | ||Cibotium arachnoideum (C.Chr.) Holttum ||Borneo, Sumatra. |- |120px ||Cibotium barometz (L.) J.Sm. ||Hawaii (Oahu), Southeast Asia from China to the Malay Peninsula. |- |120px ||Cibotium chamissoi Kaulf. ||Hawaii (Oahu). |- |120px ||Cibotium cumingii Kunze ||Borneo to Philippines. |- |120px ||Cibotium glaucum (Sm.) Hook. & Arn. ||Hawaii. |- | || Cibotium × helenae D.D.Palmer (C. chamissoi × C. menziesii)||Hawaii (Oahu). |- |120px ||Cibotium menziesii Hook. ||Hawaii. |- | ||Cibotium nealiae Degen. || Hawaii (Kauai). |- |120px ||Cibotium regale Verschaff. ex Regel ||Mexico (Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas), Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. |- |120px ||Cibotium schiedei Schltdl. & Cham. ||Mexico (Veracruz). |- | ||Cibotium sumatranum Christ ||Sumatra. |- |120px ||Cibotium taiwanense C.M.Kuo ||Taiwan. |- |} Some extinct species have also been placed in this genus: †Cibotium iwatense Ogura †Cibotium oregonense Barrington
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