| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| 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. 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.
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Bud
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The fern cooked in plum sauce
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Leaf scars on the trunk of S. lepifera
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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). . Bibcode:2014JBiog..41..402K. doi:10.1111/jbi.12222. PMC 4238398. PMID 25435648.
External links
- C. lepifera at the Taiwan Biodiversity Index (in Chinese)
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| Sphaeropteris lepifera | |
| Cyathea lepifera |
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| Alsophila lepifera | |
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