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Zamiaceae Zamia lucayana | Taxonomy | Flora of the World

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Taxon

Zamia lucayana Britton

Protologue Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 5: 311. 1907BHL page IPNI

AcceptedGBIF

EDGE • Critically Endangered

Zamia lucayana--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 438.jpg

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Endemic to Bahamas (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

No collection number

March 14, 2005

Location

South Africa, Mpumalanga (Buffalo City NU, Lowveld National Botanical Garden)

-33.016111, 27.808333

Location Remarks

City of Nelspruit

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Cycadopsida

Order

Cycadales

Family

Zamiaceae

Genus

Zamia

Specific Epithet

lucayana

Authorship

Britton

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 3.1

Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.

EDGE List

Threat status

Critically Endangered

IUCN Red List

EDGE score

2.7

Global rank

#144 of 1,090

Top 1,000 globally

This lineage appears to have diverged from its closest living relatives roughly 2 million years ago — a long, lonely branch of the plant tree of life.

Source: Gymnosperms EDGE assessment →