''Ceratozamia hildae'', commonly known as the bamboo cycad, is a species of
cycad
Cycads are seed plants that typically have a stout and woody (ligneous) trunk with a crown of large, hard, stiff, evergreen and (usually) pinnate leaves. The species are dioecious, that is, individual plants of a species are either male o ...
in the family
Zamiaceae
The Zamiaceae are a family of cycads that are superficially palm or fern-like. They are divided into two subfamilies with eight genera and about 150 species in the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Australia and North and South America ...
that is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. It is native to the Huasteca Potosina of
Querétaro and
San Luis Potosí, near the
Santa Maria River. ''C. hildae'' inhabits
deciduous oak woodlands at elevations of . It is threatened by
habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby ...
and over-collecting.
It is the only cycad with more than two sets of leaflets per leaf internode.
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hildae
Endemic flora of Mexico
Flora of Querétaro
Flora of San Luis Potosí
Endangered biota of Mexico
Endangered plants
Plants described in 1979
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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