''Cycas hongheensis'' 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 to
Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...
, southern China. It is found in
Gejiu and
Shiping County (near Nujie 牛街镇).
[Whitelock, Loran M. 2002. ''The Cycads''. Portland: Timber Press. ] It is also found in Dawei Mountain Nature Reserve. Only two wild populations remain, both with fewer than 1,000 individuals.
[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
hongheensis
Endemic flora of Yunnan
Taxa named by Si Yuan Yang
Taxa named by Si Lin Yang
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