Biology:Sphaeropteris lunulata

Sphaeropteris lunulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Cyatheales
Family:	Cyatheaceae
Genus:	Sphaeropteris
Species:	S. lunulata
Binomial name
	Sphaeropteris lunulata; (G.Forst.) R.M.Tryon
Synonyms
	Cyathea ponapeana Kuhn ; (G.Forst.) Fée Alsophila haenkei; C.Presl Alsophila lunulata; (G.Forst.) R.Br. Alsophila marianna; Gaudich. Kuhn ; Hosok. (Copel.) C.Chr. ; Carruth. Merr. ; Gaudich. (Hosok.) Glassman ; Copel. G.Forst. ; Cyathea vitiensis Cyathea extensa; Cyathea lunulata Cyathea naumannii; Cyathea rugosula Domin ; Alsophila naumannii Alsophila ponapeana; Alsophila rugosula Alsophila vitiensis; Sw. (G.Forst.) Copel. ; Domin Copel. ; Trevis. Phegopteris lunulata; Polypodium lunulatum Hemitelia cumingii; Alsophila gazellae Cyathea haenkei; Cyathea marianna Cyathea vitiensis;

Short description: Species of plant

Sphaeropteris lunulata is a species of tree fern in the family Cyatheaceae, native from Sulawesi in Malesia and the Bismarck Archipelago in Papuasia to the western Pacific.^[1]^[2] It was first described by Georg Forster in 1786 as Polypodium lunulatum and transferred to Sphaeropteris by Rolla Tryon in 1970.^[3]

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