Cyatheaceae
Cyathea Family
The Cyatheaceae family (Cyathea Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Cyatheales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 2 species. Its members are predominantly trees.
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A trunk-forming fern, its fibrous trunk built from a mass of old leaf bases and adventitious roots rather than true wood, topped by a crown of large, arching, finely divided fronds unfurling from tightly coiled fiddleheads.
As a true fern this family has no flowers or seeds — despite its tree-like trunk, that trunk is not wood at all but a dense mat of old leaf bases and roots built up over decades.
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Typical leaf characters
Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.
All 2 species in CYATHEACEAE
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