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Macrozamia communis is an Australian cycad found on the east coast of New South Wales.The common name for the species is burrawang, a word derived from the Daruk Australian Aboriginal language; this name is also often applied to other species of Macrozamia.
Cycas armstrongii is a species of cycad in the genus Cycas, endemic to the Northern Territory of Australia.It is found from Darwin to the Mary River, the Finniss River in the west to the Arnhem Highway in the east, and north of Pine Creek.
CITES and Cycads: a user’s guide. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Kew Publishing.
Unambiguous fossils of cycads are known from the Early-Middle Permian onwards. [24] Cycads were generally uncommon during the Permian. [25] The two living cycad families are thought to have split from each other sometime between the Jurassic [15] and Carboniferous. [26] Cycads are thought to have reached their apex of diversity during the ...
As in Asia, Cycas is the only genus of cycad found across the region, with the exception for Australia, where cycads native to all three families of cycads are found. Despite this, Australia also has the largest number of Cycas species globally with 34 native Cycas species accepted (as of April 2024), including the southernmost species globally ...
A specimen of L. hopei is known as the tallest living cycad at 17.5 m tall. These cycads are generally unbranched, tall, and with persistent leaf bases. They are easily cultivated as ornamental plants and are relatively cold hardy; L. peroffskyana was first described by a specimen grown at Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden in 1857.
Macrozamia miquelii, is a species of cycad in the plant family Zamiaceae.It is endemic to Queensland and New South Wales in Eastern Australia.Located within sclerophyll forests dominated by eucalyptus trees, the cycad grows on nutrient-poor soils.
Leaf detail. Lepidozamia peroffskyana is slow-growing, low maintenance, long-lived cycad that makes a good feature plant in semi-shaded positions or in a container. It grows up to seven metres tall but more usually reaches about four metres.