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Accession Data:

Zamia furfuracea L.f. ex Aiton

  • Common Name: Jamaica Sagotree
  • Family: Zamiaceae Reichb.

  • Country of Origin: Mexico (Veracruz)
  • Habitat: generally arid thorn scrub and in limestone sea cliffs

  • Description: [syn Z. pumila L.]

    Stem more or less tuberous, sometimes branched, bearing a tangled profusion of petiole or axis; also applied to how the lateral veins are arranged in relation to the main vein.">pinnate leaves 1-1.3 meters long, on prickly stalks, the thick leathery leaflets oblanceolate 20 cm long, more or less toothed and overlapping, densely brown scurfy beneath, or on both sides when young; male cones 10 cm long, the female ones shorter. An excellent 'different' decorator plant, hard and durable as iron, and of relatively small size.

  • USDA Zone: 9b-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199600031
  • Source: Chiltern Seed
  • Accession Date: 12-12-1996
  • Bench: 1305 - NEOA: Ground Bed 1 NW
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-08-2024
  • Restrictions:
    • IUCN Red List: Endangered Species
    • CITES Appendix II Listed Plant

Classification:

  • Division: Cycadophyta
  • Class: Cycadopsida
  • SubClass: Cycadidae
  • Order: Cycadales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Zamiaceae
  • SubFamily: Zamioideae
  • Tribe: Zamieae
  • SubTribe: Zamiinae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • Gymnosperms & Gnetophytes
  • IUCN Redlist Endangered Species
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Gulf /

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 26 February 2015.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 26 February 2015.
  3. Exotica 4 by AB Graf

data regenerated on Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:54:28 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Zamiaceae

  • Stangeria eriopus

Subfamily Ceratozamieae

  • Ceratozamia hildae

Subfamily Encephalartoideae
Tribe Diooeae

  • Dioon edule

Subfamily Encephalartoideae
Tribe Encephalarteae

  • Encephalartinae: Encephalartos altensteinii
  • Encephalartinae: Encephalartos nubimontanus
  • Macrozamiinae: Lepidozamia peroffskyana

Subfamily Zamioideae
Tribe Zamieae

  • Microcycadinae: Microcycas calocoma
  • Zamiinae: Zamia furfuracea
  • Zamiinae: Zamia pumila
W/C = Wild Collected
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