We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Click for help
Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Alsophila colensoi Hook.f.

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
This is a synonym
This record has collections
Threat status: Not threatened

Click to collapse Details Info

Alsophila colensoi Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 8, t. 73 (1854)
Cyathea colensoi (Hook.f.) Domin
Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. 2000: New Zealand ferns and allied plants. Edition 2. David Bateman, Auckland.

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1854–1855: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
1854
8, t. 73
ICN
Alsophila colensoi Hook.f.
species
Alsophila colensoi
Named in honour of William Colenso (1811-99), a printer, missionary, politician and botanist in New Zealand.
Lectotype (selected by Brownsey & Perrie 2015): New Zealand, W. Colenso No. 1673, 1849, K (on two sheets)! (photo WELT E466/13, E466/24).

Click to collapse Classification Info

Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Cyatheales
Cyatheaceae
Alsophila
colensoi

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Alsophila colensoi Hook.f.
Alsophila colensoi Hook.f.
Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. (2000)
Cyathea colensoi (Hook.f.) Domin
Alsophila colensoi Hook.f.
Alsophila colensoi Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Gosden, J. et al. (2024)
Alsophila colensoi Hook.f.

Click to collapse Collections Info

Alsophila colensoi Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
2 Link to an external page

Click to collapse Notes Info

typification
Lectotype (selected by Brownsey & Perrie 2015): New Zealand, W. Colenso No. 1673, 1849, K (on two sheets)! (photo WELT E466/13, E466/24).
Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. 2015: Taxonomic notes on the New Zealand flora: types in the fern families Cyatheaceae, Dicksoniaceae and Loxsomataceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 53(2): 124–128.
Etymology
Named in honour of William Colenso (1811-99), a printer, missionary, politician and botanist in New Zealand.

Click to collapse Metadata Info

83d5bc5b-c2e1-4972-bccf-4018e8c6e562
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
23 April 2026
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top