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Sphaeropteris medullaris (black tree fern)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cyathea medullaris, popularly known as the black tree fern, is a large tree fern up to 20 m tall. It is distributed across the south-west Pacific from Fiji to Pitcairn and New Zealand. It is called mamaku, katātā, kōrau, or pītau in the Māori language.
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Predators

Ctenopseustis fraterna[1]
Cymeda zealandica[1]
Pseudaulacaspis phymatodidis[1]
Scolypopa australis (Passionvine planthopper)[1]
Tenuipalpus cyatheae[1]

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♦ 1New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0