3. Cibotium menziesii Hook. Cibotium chamissoi sensu Skottsb., non Kaulf.; C. pruinatum Melt. ex Kuhn; Dicksonia menziesii (Hook.) Hook. & Baker; D. menziesii var. pruinata (Mett. ex Kuhn) Baker

Common names: hiipu 'u 'i 'i, 'i 'i, 'i 'i 'i ('i 'i and 'i'i'i, reddish brown)

Endemic

Name honors Archibald Menzies (1754-1842), British naturalist, gardener, botanist, zoologist, plant collector, and assistant sur-geon on the Discovery under Capt. George Vancouver between 1791 and 1795.

Caudices 2-7 m tall, 16-80 cm diam. Fronds to 5 m long. Stipes and rachises cov-ered with stiff, straight, dark brown (occa-sionally reddish or pale tan) hairs composed of tubular cells (older, windblown fronds often loosing much hair, except at base). Pinnae sinuses wide-angled, cut 1/3-2/3 to costae. Ultimate segments broad, 5-9.5 mm wide, abaxial surfaces light green to slightly glaucous with many minute, light green to · dark brown, raised dots (minute stellate hair clusters) best seen with 10x lens (often ab-sent on older fronds or older herbarium sheets), and no arachnoid hairs; adaxial surfaces dark green, somewhat glossy, tips obtuse.

Locally abundant in wet forests, occasional in mesic forests, 250-1,400 m, all major islands.

Cibotium menziesii is often closely asso-ciated with C. chamissoi at intermediate ele-vations, and on O'ahu hybridizes with it (see discussion under Hybrids later in this genus treatment).

Cibotium menziesii may be recognized in the field by its stipes covered with stiff, straight, dark brown hairs (occa-sionally reddish or pale tan); dark green blade upper surface; broad ultimate segments with wide and shallow sinuses; and most consistently by many minute tan or dark raised dots (best seen with a lOx lens) on the undersurfaces of the pinnae.