Sphaeropteris lepifera
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Cyatheales |
| Family: | Cyatheaceae |
| Genus: | Sphaeropteris |
| Species: | S. lepifera
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| Sphaeropteris lepifera (J.Sm. ex Hooker.) R.M.Tryon
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Sphaeropteris lepifera, synonym Cyathea lepifera, the brush pot tree (Chinese: 筆筒樹; pinyin: bǐtǒng shù), is a tree fern that grows in the mountains of East and Southeast Asia, which can grow up to 20 feet (6.1 m) tall.[1] While the tree fern lineage dates back to the Jurassic, the crown group Sphaeropteris can be traced back to the Cretaceous, around 90 million years ago.[2][3]
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Bud -
The fern cooked in plum sauce -
Leaf scars on the trunk of S. lepifera -
Crown of S. lepifera
References
- ^ Steve Parker (2009). Ferns, Mosses & Other Spore-Producing Plants. Capstone. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7565-4220-7.
- ^ Sosa, Victoria; Ornelas, Juan Francisco; Ramírez-Barahona, Santiago; Gándara, Etelvina (2016). "Historical reconstruction of climatic and elevation preferences and the evolution of cloud forest-adapted tree ferns in Mesoamerica". PeerJ. 4. Chronogram of the Cyatheaceae and other tree fern lineages. doi:10.7717/peerj.2696. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5119233. PMID 27896030.
- ^ Korall, Petra; Pryer, Kathleen M (2014). "Global biogeography of scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae): evidence for Gondwanan vicariance and limited transoceanic dispersal". J. Biogeogr. 41 (2). [1]. Bibcode:2014JBiog..41..402K. doi:10.1111/jbi.12222. PMC 4238398. PMID 25435648.
External links
- C. lepifera at the Taiwan Biodiversity Index (in Chinese)