Editing Macrozamia communis (section)

===Principal Characteristics: ===
The principal characteristics of ''M. communis'' are as follows:

</li><li>a normally unbranched trunk though plants do branch on an extremely rare basis (see photo; but note that some of the lower fronds on the plant were removed so as to permit a clear view of the divided trunk)
</li><li>dark green coloured fronds which become dull with age
</li><li>an untwisted rhachis
</li><li>entire and sharply-tipped pinnae which are angled forward (at an angle of 45-60 degrees to the rhachis) and which extend in a horizontal plane from the rhachis
</li><li>pinnae which progressively reduce in size and become spine-like towards the base of the rhachis
</li><li>a prominent whitish callous at the point where the pinnae join the rhachis (though plants in the Sydney suburb of Menai sometimes have pinkish callouses)
</li><li>seeds which can have red, orange or yellow coloured flesh