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Sphaeropteris
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Sphaeropteris excelsa (syn. Cyathea brownii) in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney thumb|upright|Sphaeropteris intermedia in habitat in [[New Caledonia]] thumb|upright|Sphaeropteris medullaris in [[Auckland, New Zealand]]
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPolypodiopsida
- OrderCyatheales
- FamilyCyatheaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 328
- With media
- 314
- Family
- Cyatheaceae
- Collections
- NY, IBUNAM, US, GH
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Costa Rica, Mexico, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Vanuatu
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cyatheaceae
- Image
- Blendys garden inferno ag.jpg
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- taxon name
- Sphaeropteris
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Sphaeropteris
- taxon common name
- 白桫椤属
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Phylogeny
- Distribution and habitat
- References
thumb|upright|Sphaeropteris excelsa (syn. Cyathea brownii) in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney thumb|upright|Sphaeropteris intermedia in habitat in [[New Caledonia]] thumb|upright|Sphaeropteris medullaris in [[Auckland, New Zealand]]
Sphaeropteris is a genus of tree ferns in the family Cyatheaceae. It has been treated as a subgenus within the genus Cyathea, but is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sphaeropteris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.