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==Doubtful species==
No taxonomic database that I've looked at lists "Cyathea × confirmis" or "Cyathea confirmis". The International Plant Names Index has no entries for the specific epithet "confirmis". A Google Scholar search for "confirmis" Cyatheaceae produces no hits.
There is a species Cyathea confinis C.Chr., now Alsophila confinis (C.Chr.) R.M.Tryon, whose distribution is given as Haiti, which fits what is said in the article.
If there were a species originally named as "Cyathea × confirmis", the parents given in the article are now both in Alsophila, so it would need to be moved to that genus, but no such name exists.
I conclude that the article should be deleted, as the name is either a misspelling in the source or here. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:07, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Having consulted the original source, I can confirm that the same spelling is used there. If the name is not found anywhere else then it's probably a typographical error as you suggest. In any case, I support the article's deletion if the name has no currency outside this brief mention. mgiganteus1 (talk) 13:01, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, thanks for checking the original. I managed to get access to the full text of this article via JSTOR. It says "Cyathea confinis, a Haitian species known only from the type collection at Massif de la Hott ... is probably of hybrid origin." Possible parents are given as Alsophila hotteana (syn. Cyathea hotteana) and a Nephelea species, possibly Nephelea woodwardioides, which is a synonym of Cyathea woodwardioides = Alsophila woodwardioides. So the information available on Cyathea confinis fits exactly the information on "Cyathea × confirmis". I think it's better to delete than to move, given that we can't be 100% certain of the identity. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:07, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, that's fine by me. An alternative would be to redirect to the main Alsophila page where this information could be summarised under "Dubious species" or something like that. mgiganteus1 (talk) 17:22, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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