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Accession Data:

Lepidozamia peroffskyana Regel

  • Common Name: Palmfern
  • Family: Zamiaceae Reichb.

  • Country of Origin: SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
  • Habitat: wet sclerophyll forest bordering on rain forest

  • Description: [syn. Macrozamia Denisonii C. Moore & F.J. Muell.; Macrozamia Peroffskyana (Regel) Miq.]

    Trunk to 20 feet or more, clothed with persistent leaf bases; leaves to 10 feet long, pinnae 200 or more, 4-12 inches long, to 1/2 inch wide, glossy above, broadly linear, recurved; male cones subcylindrical and more or less twisted, to 2 feet long, female cones ovoid, to 32 inches long, 12 inches in diameter; seed red when ripe.

  • USDA Zone: 9b-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199600033
  • Source: Chiltern
  • Accession Date: 12-12-1996
  • Bench: 1218 - AUS:Ground Bed 2 SE
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-05-2024
  • Restrictions:
    • CITES Appendix II Listed Plant

Classification:

  • Division: Cycadophyta
  • Class: Cycadopsida
  • SubClass: Cycadidae
  • Order: Cycadales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Zamiaceae
  • SubFamily: Encephalartoideae
  • Tribe: Encephalarteae
  • SubTribe: Macrozamiinae

References (internal):

  • Gymnosperms & Gnetophytes
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: New South Wales / Queensland

References (external):

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. Lepidozamia peroffskyana at Palm & Cycad Society of Australia. Last accessed on Monday, June 27, 2016.
  3. Lepidozamia peroffskyana at The Gymnosperm Database. Last accessed on Monday, June 27, 2016.
  4. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, June 27, 2016.
  5. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Monday, June 27, 2016.

data regenerated on Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:54:28 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Zamiaceae

  • Stangeria eriopus

Subfamily Ceratozamieae

  • Ceratozamia hildae

Subfamily Encephalartoideae
Tribe Diooeae

  • Dioon edule

Subfamily Encephalartoideae
Tribe Encephalarteae

  • Encephalartinae: Encephalartos altensteinii
  • Encephalartinae: Encephalartos nubimontanus
  • Macrozamiinae: Lepidozamia peroffskyana

Subfamily Zamioideae
Tribe Zamieae

  • Microcycadinae: Microcycas calocoma
  • Zamiinae: Zamia furfuracea
  • Zamiinae: Zamia pumila
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