Zamia muricata

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Figure 1. Z. muricata in Anderson Park Botanic Gardens, Townsville, Queensland.

Conservation Status:

Not threatened

Distribution & Habitat:

It grows as an understory plant mainly from sea level to 300m in primary forest to well-established secondary forest on rocky to clay soils in north-eastern and coastal Colombia to central coastal area of Venezuela.

Description:

A small cycad with a stem to 15cm tall, 2-6 leaves up to 2m long. Leaflets are oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 15-20cm long and 2-4 cm wide, and the petiole is sparsely prickled. New leaves are an attractive bronze colour. Very similar in appearance to Zamia lecointei.

Culture:

Shady, well drained position.

Figure 2. Z. muricata new leaf.

Figure 3. Z. muricata female cones.

Contributed by:

Gregg Cuffe (Figure 1&3)
Colin Wilson (Figure 2)

External Links:

World List, IUCN, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr,