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Zamiaceae

W/C = Wild Collected
Lepidozamia peroffskyana Regel

  • Query IPNI
  • Common Name: Palmfern
  • Family: Zamiaceae Reichb.

  • Country of Origin: East Australia
  • Habitat:

  • 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.

Restrictions:

  • CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199600033
  • Source: Chiltern
  • Accession Date: 12-12-1996
  • Bench: 2103 - SE Side bench
  • Qty: 1 confirmed on 05-29-2008
Classification:

  • Division: Cycadophyta
  • Class: Cycadopsida
  • SubClass: cycads
  • Order: Cycadales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Zamiaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:
References:

Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976

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