Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XX. Cyatheaceae Author Lehnert, Marcus Author Kessler, Michael Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH- 8008 Zurich, Switzerland text Phytotaxa 2018 2018-01-16 334 2 118 134 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.2 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.2 1179-3163 13721436 Cyathea catacampta Alston, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 48: 231. 1958 . Range: —Andes from Colombia to Bolivia (LP). Ecology: —Rare at higher elevations in montane rainforests; 2400–2850 m . Notes: —Similar and closely related to C. squamipes H.Karst. Both species often grow together; in direct comparison C. catacampta can be distinguished by having relatively long and wide, downwardly curved fronds on short petioles with ± sessile pinnae while the fronds of C. squamipes are held patent-arching, with the lower pinnae visibly stalked. Cyathea frondosa H.Karst. , a regular species of high elevations in the northern Andes, may also occur scatteredly in Peru and Bolivia . It differs from C. catacampta in denser, finer scurf of pale brown to rarely whitish color, ± concolorous brown petiole scales that have a twisted apex, and presence of remote basal pinnae. See Lehnert (2009a) for further discussion of these species.