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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