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angustifolia

Taxon

Zamia angustifolia Jacq.

Protologue Collectanea [Jacquin] 3: 263. 1791 [1789 publ. late 1791]IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Vulnerable
Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 439.jpg

Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 439.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 443.jpg

Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 443.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 440.jpg

Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 440.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 445.jpg

Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 445.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 441.jpg

Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 441.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 442.jpg

Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 442.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 444.jpg

Zamia angustifolia--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 444.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Bahamas, Cuba (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 15, 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

angustifolia

Authorship

Jacq.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 2.3

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Vulnerable

IUCN Red List

EDGE score

0.5

Global rank

#536 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 →