Cibotium Kaulf.
Descripción
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.
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
Cibotium comprises about 10 species of eastern Asia, Hawaii, Mexico, and Central America. It occurs in middle elevation rain forests in the New World.A