Cyathea strigillosa (Maxon) Domin (1930: 161)

Lehnert, Marcus, 2016, A synopsis of the exindusiate species of Cyathea (Cyatheaceae-Polypodiopsida) with bipinnate-pinnatifid or more complex fronds, with a revision of the C. lasiosora complex, Phytotaxa 243 (1), pp. 1-53 : 6

13. Cyathea strigillosa (Maxon) Domin (1930: 161) . Alsophila strigillosa Maxon (1922: 37) . Type:— CUBA. Santiago de Cuba: Nima-Nima, 3 December 1859, C. Wright 1062 (holotype YU-009952!/-0009953/000667!/-000668!, isotypes B-20-0000021!, BM-000634772, DUKE-10000939, E-00157359, GH-00020445, GOET-010307!/-010308!, HAC? [Herbarium Sauvalle], K-000589811!/-000589812!, NY-00127057!/-00127058!, P-00642508!, PH-00001984 n.v., S-06-972!).

Distribution and habitat: — Cuba at 10–1000 m.

Remarks: — Maxon (1922: 37) clearly designates the material at the Peabody Museum (YU) as type; the four sheets seen there contain a frond apex, a fertile pinna showing the abaxial side, a larger pinna showing the adaxial side, and a part of the trunk apex including the petiole with a basal pinna, respectively, and all bear identical annotations by Maxon, i.e. “ Alsophila strigillosa Maxon, WRM [sic; the author’s initials], part of type”. This is interpreted here as a designation of a holotype mounted on several sheets. Maxon’s (1922) description clearly bases on all four sheets from YU, and he opposes them to material with the same number in Havana and at Kew.