Sphaeropteris lepifera explained

Sphaeropteris lepifera, synonym Cyathea lepifera, the brush pot tree, is a tree fern that grows in the mountains of East and Southeast Asia, which can grow up to tall.[1] While the tree fern lineage dates back to the Jurassic, the crown group Sphaeropteris can be traced back to the Cretaceous, around 90 million years ago.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Steve Parker. Ferns, Mosses & Other Spore-Producing Plants. 2009. Capstone. 978-0-7565-4220-7. 4.
  2. Sosa . Victoria . Ornelas . Juan Francisco . Ramírez-Barahona . Santiago . Gándara . Etelvina . 2016 . Historical reconstruction of climatic and elevation preferences and the evolution of cloud forest-adapted tree ferns in Mesoamerica . PeerJ . 4 . Chronogram of the Cyatheaceae and other tree fern lineages . 10.7717/peerj.2696 . free . 2167-8359 . 5119233 . 27896030.
  3. Korall . Petra . Pryer . Kathleen M . 2014 . Global biogeography of scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae): evidence for Gondwanan vicariance and limited transoceanic dispersal . J. Biogeogr. . 41 . 2 . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4238398/ . 10.1111/jbi.12222 . free . 25435648. 4238398 . 2014JBiog..41..402K .

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