Schizaea poeppigiana Sturm

Lophidium poeppigianum (Sturm) Underwood
Schizaea Poeppigiana Sturm, in Mart. Fl. Bras. I2 : 181. 1859. Schizaea occidenialis Griseb. Cat. PI. Cuba 273. 1866.
Rhizome relatively stout, shortcreeping, densely clothed with lustrous castaneous hairs ; fronds fasciculate, erect, the fertile ones usually far surpassing the sterile. Sterile fronds erect, 15-30 cm. long; stipes pilose, dull-stramineous from a darkish base, concavemarginate along the anterior face, convex below ; lamina orbicular (the divisions spreading), 10-12 cm. broad, in drying conduplicate and broadly obdeltoid, 5-8 times dichotomous, the ultimate divisions linear, 1-2 mm. broad, acutish, unicostate, the costa elevated above, scarcely so below, the margins thickened and conspicuously scabrous at the upper surface. Fertile fronds stouter, 30-50 cm. long, 3 or 4 times dichotomous, the ultimate divisions slender; sporangiophores strongly incurved (straight at first), 1.5-2 cm. long, conduplicate, the segments (15-25 pairs) slender, the middle ones distinctly the longest, the margins and costae pilose ; spores delicately and very minutely verrucose.
Type locality: Ventanilla de Cassapillo, Peru.
Distribution : Eastern Cuba ; also from Costa Rica to Peru and British Guiana.

Schizaea poeppigiana là một loài dương xỉ trong họ Schizaeaceae. Loài này được J.W. Sturm mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1859.