Cyathea windischiana Smith (2006: 427)

Lehnert, Marcus, 2011, Species of Cyathea in America related to the western Pacific species C. decurrens, Phytotaxa 26, pp. 39-59 : 56

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.26.1.6
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scientific name	Cyathea windischiana Smith (2006: 427)
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40. Cyathea windischiana Smith (2006: 427) View in CoL . Type :— PERU. Amazonas : Bagua Distr. , Cerro Tayu, ca. 1 hour from Chiriaco, 05º15'56"S, 78º22'07"W, 800 m, van der Werff, Vasquez, & Gray 16207 (holotype MO, isotype UC) GoogleMaps .

Distribution and habitat: — Peru, in moist montane forests at 800 m.

Remarks: — Cyathea windischiana differs from C. macrosora mainly in being trunkless and having only pinnate-pinnatifid to bipinnate fronds, and may represent a precociously fertile plant of that species. Similar pedomorphic plants are common in C. cyatheoides , C. surinamensis , and C. bradei .