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Cycas thouarsii is the most geographically widespread species, and is found in Indian Ocean islands as well. Tanzania ... List of cycad species by country.
This cycad is stemless, growing from an underground stem that's about 30 cm long and 25 cm wide. Occasionally, a small part of the stem may emerge above the ground. Its leaves, numbering from eight to ten, are flat and opaque, measuring 80–120 cm long, and have a bluish or silvery green hue.
These cycad species reach about 6 meters in height with a 30 cm diameter stem that is erect and lacks branches. The stem is covered in linear cataphyll and thick yellowish hairs. The leaves are found at the top of the stem in a crown formation and are supported by a tomentose petiole that is 1–7 cm long.
Encephalartos lebomboensis is a species of cycad in the family Zamiaceae. Native to the Lebombo Mountains of South Africa, the species was first described in 1949 by the South African botanist Inez Verdoorn. [3] It is commonly known as the Lebombo cycad, although the name is also used for Encephalartos senticosus which also occurs in the same ...
Pages in category "Cycads" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... List of cycad species by country; M. Mesosingeria; P. Praeornis ...
Encephalartos senticosus is a species of cycad in the family Zamiaceae native to the Lebombo Mountains of Mozambique, Eswatini (Swaziland), and the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Prior to its description in 1996, Encephalartos senticosus had been confused with the closely related and sympatric Encephalartos lebomboensis .
Ceratozamia is a genus of New World cycads in the family Zamiaceae.The genus contains 27 known currently living species and one or two fossil species. Most species are endemic to mountainous areas of Mexico, while few species extend into the mountains of Guatemala, Honduras and Belize.
The cycad is 3.5–4 m tall and 35–45 cm in diameter. Its dark green leaves are rigid, 3–4 m long, and 30–40 cm broad, with a petiole up to 13 mm long. The leaflets, 20-25 cm long and about 20 mm wide, angle at 30° from the rachis.