Editing Cycas cairnsiana (section)

===Distribution & Habitat:===
The Newcastle Range, in north-east Queensland.<br/>
Habitat is open woodland amongst granite outcrops; decomposed
granite soil.
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 ===Description:===
''Cycas cairnsiana'' is listed by David Jones (1981) as 1
to 5m tall, and in some areas this could well be. However,
observations around Petford, Chillagoe and again at Dimbulah,
describe the plants up to 2m only, with quite a stout caudex,
swelling toward the base. Heavy crowns of glaucous blue
fronds arching bow like from the apex of the caudex. The
pinnae forming a deep vee along the length of the rachis. The
leaf coloration persists on both surfaces, and the naked
petiole below the pinnae having small teeth. Leaf fronds in
plants were 1.5m, but in very large specimens not at present
seen but often reported, could easily reach 2m long. Male
cones were 20cm long, ovoid, and golden brown. Female simple
cones, initially ferruginous, pubescent and with a narrow
petiole terminating in a small toothed head. Ovules two to a
megasporophyll. These are green at first, then blue green and
when finally pendant, a shiny brown. When the new centre
fronds arise, they are a light blue uncoiling from a rusty
coloured rachis, and are quite eye catching.

This plant has strong recurving margins on all the pinnules.
Being not nearly as frost tender as others of its kind across
the Top End, this should respond well to cultivation in
cooler areas. This statement is made regrettably as in this
country cultivation for landscaping projects could well be
our only means to save them from eventual extinction.
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[[File:Cycas_cairnsiana02.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''C. cairnsiana'' in habitat.]]
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[[File:Cycas_cairnsiana03.jpg|frame|Figure 3. Mature seeds]]
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