Editing Cycas furfuracea

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Situated in rather an isolated section of the King Leopold
Ranges in Western Australia's far north, this species
inaccessibility has heen its protection so far. Colonies grow
close to the escarpment along Bold Bluff, along gullies and
near creek systems. At Mount Brooms, the terrain is a mixture
of sandstone boulders and a form of spinifex right up the
slopes and the colonies grow almost to the top among the
spinifex. The area seems typically of a sandstone type and
it has been observed that some plants sucker around their
base.

The specific name means covered with loose scales and this
appertains to the underside of the leaf fronds which are
conspicuously so.
The caudex is quite thick somewhat like forms of
''Cycas media'' measuring from 1.0m to perhaps 2.5m in
height. Existent mature fronds being 0.5m to 1.0m in length,
held stiffly and slightly curving out from the apex.
Measurements of leaflet pinnae are 10-15.0cm in length by
0.4-0.6cm in width and strongly keeled with darker tips. The
leaf colour above is an intense glabrous blue and the
underside furfuraceously grey. On the male plants the cones
are approximately 30.0cm long and 6.0-60cm wide, narrow and
ovoid with a pointed end. Soft grey hairs cover the cones.
The females have a simple ''Cycas'' cone of
megasporophylls approximately 15.0-20.0cm long. The blades of
the megsporophylls are prominently arranged with soft
flexible spine-like teeth above the ovules and terminating in
a blunt end. The entire cone structure is covered with brown
woolly hair. The ovules, when mature, being 2.5cm long,
yellow with adhering grey tomentum.
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===Contributed by: ===
L. P. Butt from '''Palms & Cycads''' No. 27, Apr-Jun 1990.


===External Links:===
[https://www.cycadlist.org/taxon.php?Taxon_ID=127 World List], 
[https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/full/41990/0 IUCN],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Cycas+furfuracea JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Cycas+furfuracea Trebrown]
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[https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Cycas+furfuracea%22&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages],
[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Cycas+furfuracea Flickr],
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