''Cycas guizhouensis'' is a species of

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 o ...

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 elsew ...

southwestern China Southwest China () is a region in the south of the People's Republic of China. Geography Southwest China is a rugged and mountainous region, transitioning between the Tibetan Plateau to the west and the Chinese coastal hills (东南丘陵) and ...

Distribution

It is found in Nanpan and Qingshui valleys in southwestern Guizhou province (including Xingyi) and also in eastern Yunnan and northwestern Guangxi provinces (including Xilin County and

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).Whitelock, Loran M. 2002. ''The Cycads''. Portland: Timber Press. In Xingyi, Guizhou, specimens were collected from Wantun Village 万屯村. It was used as a

famine food A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty, such as during economic depression or war, or by natural disasters such as ...

by local ethnic minorities during the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

. Wild populations are very small, with fewer than 50 individuals per population.Zheng Y, Liu J, Feng X, Gong X. 2017. The distribution, diversity, and conservation status of ''Cycas'' in China. Ecol Evol. 2017;7:3212–3224. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2910

References

guizhouensis Plants described in 1983 {{cycad-stub