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Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. (2000)
Endemic to Raoul Island

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Hook. ex Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
1864
349
ICN
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
species
Cyathea milnei
Named in honour of W.G. Milne (?–1886), collector on the voyage of HMS Herald to the Pacific 1852–61.
Holotype: Kermadec Isles, Raoul Is., J. MacGillivray, Voyage of HMS Herald, Bot. No. 942, July 1854, K! (photo WELT E466/17).

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Cyatheales
Cyatheaceae
Cyathea
milnei

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.

Caudex stout, 2-8 m. tall, invested by bases of fallen stipites; dead fronds hanging, long persistent; base widened by mass of rootlets, 50-80 cm. diam. Fronds 2.5-4 ×1·2 m.; coriac., shining dark green above, paler below. Stipes stout, clad at base with cop. linear brown paleae, under surface closely tuberculate. Rhachis (and secondary rhachides and costae) green, asperous, slightly grooved above, sparingly clad in deciduous yellow-brown woolly hairs mingled with paleae. Primary pinnae 45-60 × 20-23 cm., oblong-lanceolate, abruptly attenuate; secondary pinnae 11-12.5 × 2-2.5 cm., linear-oblong, falcate, attenuate, apex deeply serrate; deeply pinnatifid or pinnate. Segs 12-15 × 4 mm., oblong, falcate, acute, obscurely crenate-serrate, margins slightly recurved, under surface often scaly pubescent. Sori cop., 0·8-0.9 mm. diam. Indusium membr., splitting irregularly, persistent.

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Alsophila milnei (Hook. ex Hook.f.) R.M.Tryon
Alsophila milnei (Hook. ex Hook.f.) R.M.Tryon
Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. (2000)
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. (2015)
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. (2000)
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
Sykes, W. R. (1977)
Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.

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Cyathea milnei Hook. ex Hook.f.
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typification
Holotype: Kermadec Isles, Raoul Is., J. MacGillivray, Voyage of HMS Herald, Bot. No. 942, July 1854, K! (photo WELT E466/17).
Etymology
Named in honour of W.G. Milne (?–1886), collector on the voyage of HMS Herald to the Pacific 1852–61.

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64b067bf-b530-4369-a060-9b32790e0301
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
2 September 2015
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