ZamiaceaeW/C = Wild Collected |
Encephalartos horridus (Jacq.) Lehm.
- Query IPNI
- Common Name: Ferocious Blue Cycad
- Family: Zamiaceae Reichb.
- Country of Origin: South Africa
- Habitat:
- Description: Wide-spreading ornamental cycad with short, stout trunk crowned by a cluster of stiff pinnate leaves; glaucous green, 60 cm long, leaflets oblique lanceolate and spinily lobed; male cone cylindric and stalked, 30 cm long, female cone broad ovoid, 40 cm long.
Subtropic
Restrictions:- CITES Appendix I Listed Plant - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!
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 Accession Data:- Accession # 198501210
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 2103 - SE Side bench
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 07-02-2008
Classification:- Division: Cycadophyta
- Class: Cycadopsida
- SubClass: cycads
- Order: Cycadales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Zamiaceae
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References:Exotica 4 by AB Graf
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