Cycas Vespertilio
''Cycas vespertilio'' is a species of cycad endemic to the Philippines. Range ''Cycas vespertilio'' has been recorded in: *Luzon: Camarines Sur (Panagan River) *Mindoro: Mindoro Oriental (Mount Yagaw) *Marinduque (Torrijos, Marinduque, Torrijos, Bonliw, Talisay, Cebu, Talisay) *Panay: Iloilo (Barotac Viejo, Nagpana) *Negros Island, Negros: Negros Oriental and Occidental *Cebu *Leyte: Leyte (Gigantangan) *Samar References

Cycas, vespertilio {{cycad-stub ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Cycad
Cycads are seed plants that typically have a stout and woody (ligneous) trunk (botany), trunk with a crown (botany), crown of large, hard, stiff, evergreen and (usually) pinnate leaves. The species are dioecious, that is, individual plants of a species are either male or female. Cycads vary in size from having trunks only a few centimeters to several meters tall. They typically grow very slowly and live very long. Because of their superficial resemblance, they are sometimes mistaken for Arecaceae, palms or ferns, but they are not closely related to either group. Cycads are gymnosperms (naked-seeded), meaning their fertilization, unfertilized seeds are open to the air to be directly fertilized by pollination, as contrasted with angiosperms, which have enclosed seeds with more complex fertilization arrangements. Cycads have very specialized pollinators, usually a specific species of beetle. Both male and female cycads bear cones (strobilus, strobili), somewhat similar to conife ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]