| Pteridophyte | Literature for Cibotium chamissoi
Palmer, 2003. |
| Cibotiaceae | Bibliography |
| Cibotium chamissoi | |
Common name(s): hapu`u, hapu`upu`u, pepe`e, hapu`u |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Hawaiian Islands, Southern Marianas, and Guam.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habitat | Mesic to wet forests. | |
| Elevation | (50-)150-1200 m |
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| Habit |
Caudices 1-2(-6) m tall, 10-16 cm diameter, old fronds retained as a "skirt." |
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| Leaves |
Fronds to 5 m long; stipe glabrous except at base covered with a wooly mass of golden or mustard-colored hairs, young stipes with evanescent tan scurf; pinnae sinuses narrow-angled, cut 7/8 or more to costa; ultimate segments narrow and oblong, 4-5 mm wide, occasionally with a rounded enlargement at bases of basiscopic basal segments, abaxial surface dull light green, slightly glaucous, clothed with heavy or sparse covering of long, tan, arachnoid, soon-falling hairs (often absent on older fronds or older herbarium sheets), adaxial surfaces darker green, tips obtuse. |
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| Notes |
Specific name honors Ludolf Karl Adalbert von Chamisso (1781-1838), French-born German explorer, naturalist, author, and poet, who collected plants for the Russian Kotzebue expedition, from which Kaulfuss named more than twenty new species of Hawaiian ferns. |
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| Contributor |
Sally Eichhorn |
