Cibotium chamissoi Kaulf.

Chamisso's manfern (en)

Species

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Characteristics

A tree fern. It has an erect trunk. It can be 5 m high and 12 cm across the trunk. The fronds often remain making a skirt of dead fronds around the trunk. The fronds are smooth and dull green and can be divided 2 or 3 times. The fronds are 3.5 m long. There are woolly golden hairs at the base of the frond stalk.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 3.0 - 6.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 0.3
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical fern. It grows in moist rainforest in Hawaii from 300-1800 m altitude.
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An understorey plant in mesic to wet forests.
Light 5-6
Soil humidity 5-6
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 5-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

The starch in the trunk is pounded free from the fibres.
Uses environmental use fiber medicinal
Edible stems
Therapeutic use Analgesic (bark), Blood Medicine (bark), Dietary Aid (bark), Antirheumatic (External) (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Apertif (unspecified), Depurative (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Cibotium chamissoi world distribution map, present in Guam and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17267960-1
WFO ID wfo-0001108899
COL ID V59J
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 448087
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Synonyms

Dicksonia splendens Dicksonia chamissoi Cibotium chamissoi Cibotium splendens Cibotium hawaiense Pinonia splendens