Treeferns on CITES

Bruyninckx (akerne@innet.be)
Fri, 28 Jul 1995 20:33:28 +0200

>>Treeferns are on Appendix II of CITES. Threatened or not, they are
>>protected.
>
>
>Are they really? I just grepped through my CITES documents for the
>word "Cibotium" and came up blank. I recall three species in Hawai,
>_Cibotium chamisonnia_, _C. glauca_, and _C. hawaiiensis_---these
>names are from memory and are probably misspelled---anyone with
>corrections?
>
>Nor is anything listed under Cyathea....

Barry,

Try looking under Dicksoniaceae and Cyatheaceae, they are listed at family
level.

Kenneth Bruyninckx
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