Cyathea ascendens
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The collector wrote of the trunk '1-2 m lang, krumm'. The herbarium specimen shows the apex of the trunk, 14 cm long, straight, lacking roots. There is no evidence of climbing habit; it seems more likely that the slender trunk had fallen, or partly fallen, and that the apical part grew erect after the fall, the whole being thus crooked. This species seems nearest to C. gregaria, but, apart from the simply pinnate condition, the rachises are far more hairy on the lower surfaces.