Cyathea glabra
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Malaysia present, W. Java present
Malaysia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, W. Java.
Notes
This species is very near C. gigantea, C. subdubia and C. podophylla (Hook.) Copel. In Hooker's herbarium is a small fragment of true C. glabra from Blume, with a good specimen of C. gigantea, also from Java, on the same sheet. Probably because of this, Beddome and others gave the name C. glabra to ferns from India and Ceylon which are C. gigantea, and when Beddome reeeived the true C. glabra from the Malay Peninsula he re-named it C. dubia. C. podophylla, from Indo-China and S. China, has pinnules always almost entire and almost sessile, the basal basiscopic vein usually from the costa, veins of adjacent groups often slightly anastomosing, and in well-grown specimens several pairs of sori to each vein-group. Hooker published an ex- cellent figure of C. podophylla (.