Cyathea acrostichoides
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present), Ceram present, Japen I present, Malaysia present, W. New Guinea present
Malaysia: Moluccas (Ceram), W. New Guinea (Japen I.).
Notes
Four collections from Japen Island agree well in size and all other characters with the type from Ceram. One of them includes a small frond, fully fertile, with largest pinna 12 cm and pinnules 22 mm long. Another collection (Cheesman 1431, BM) consists of a much larger frond, with pinnae to 75 cm long, pinnules to 135 by 32 mm (all sterile), costules 5l/2 mm apart, veins to 14 pairs; it agrees with other specimens in shape of pinnules, in scales, and in spiny stipe.