Editing Macrozamia douglasii (section)

===Introduction: ===
Fraser Island (off the South Queensland coast)
is famous for a number of reasons. It
abounds in botanical flora, has magnificent freshwater lakes,
is unique in its reptile life (the little dark shelled
terrapin of one lake), large belts of rain forest and drier
forest are there, heavily wooded wallum country runs through
it, and much of the seaward foreshore have really fine
coloured sand cliffs. Indeed these latter are possibly better
than the coloured sands of Rainbow Beach and Teewah!
Fraser is also noted for its long beaches and is a draw
card to recreational surf-cast fishermen from everywhere!
Following this pursuit, I spent some days on the island
recently and had a chance to examine its cycad which is named
''Macrozamia douglasii''.

Mentioned in several botanical papers, and especially by
the late Dr Start Blake of the Queensland botany department,
Dr. Blake stated it is one of the variable forms of
''[[Macrozamia miquelii]]''.
Taking this to be true I can only comment here that the
pronounced differences in the two plants make this form the
"oddball" of the miquelii species!
Remembering well the great stands of these plants in
various parts of the terrain of Fraser Island it appears to
grow on strata that is mostly just sand (except for a thin
layer of decomposed rain forest top cover.
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