Kingdom Plantae Family Cyatheaceae Rank Genus | Division Pteridophyta Subgenus Cyathea Order Tree ferns | |
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Section Alsophila
R. Brown, 1810 Lower classifications Cyathea podophylla, Alsophila pometaria | ||
Alsophila is a section in the subgenus Cyathea. The name was originally applied to a genus of tree ferns which is now considered to be synonymous with Cyathea.
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Popular Culture
In the 1971 comedy film A New Leaf, Henrietta Lowell (played by Elaine May) is a botanist whose dream is to classify a new species of fern. On a honeymoon trip, she indeed discovers a new species which she names Alsophila grahami after her new husband Henry Graham (Walter Matthau). She describes the plant as having a vestigial indusium.
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Cyathea sect. Alsophila Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA