• Family : CYATHEACEAE
  (CYATHEA FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CYATHEACEAE
• Basionym : Alsophila gigantea Wall. ex Hook.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyathea gigantea (Wall. ex Hook.) Holttum
• Habit : Tree
• Comments / notes : Common in Western Ghats
• Fertile : October-March
• Collector(s) Name : F. M. Jarrett, C. J. Saldanha & T.P.Ramamoorthy; C. J. Saldanha
• Collection Date : 05/09/1970; 14/04/1969
• Collection Nos : HFP 676, 13345
• Collection Locality : Hassan; between Hanbal and Devalkare, Hassan
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu district, Uttara Kannada district, Shimoga district
  • Odisha : Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Khordha district, Sambalpur district, Rontha Plateau (Sundergarh district), Kalahandi district, Keonjhar district, Mahendragiri Hills (Ganjam district)
• World Distribution : Tropical Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008; Rajagopal & Bhat, Pteridophytic flora of Karnataka State- 1998; Manickam V.S & Irudayaraj V. (1992)- Pteridophyte flora of W.Ghats, South India; H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 1989. The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 1996. The Flora of Orissa, Vol-4; Rolla Seshagiri Rao et al. 1986. Flora of West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India; Rolla Seshagiri Rao. 1986. Flora of Srikakulam
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyathea gigantea. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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