Cyathea rojasiana Lehnert, 2011

Lehnert, Marcus, 2011, Species of Cyathea in America related to the western Pacific species C. decurrens, Phytotaxa 26, pp. 39-59 : 53

25. Cyathea rojasiana Lehnert , nom.nov. for Cyathea panamensis Rojas (2001: 457) , not Cyathea panamensis Domin (1929: 264) . Type:— PANAMA. Fortuna Dam area, along quebrada Bonito to W of road, 1100 m, 8 February 1984, Churchill et al. 4904 (holotype UC, isotype MO).

Distribution and habitat: — Panama, in moist forests at 1100 m.

Remarks: —The epithet is dedicated to Alexander Rojas who described the species. It is basically a larger form of Cyathea multiflora with characteristic concolorous reddish brown petiole scales, but with the habit and laminar dissection of C. grayumii or C. lindigii (i.e., pinnules with attenuate tips, most veins forked).