''Zamia cunaria'' is a species of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
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. ...
. It 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 elsew ...
to the area of
Comarca Guna Yala,
Panamá
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cost ...
.
[Dressler, Robert Louis & Dennis William Stevenson. 1993. Brittonia 45(1): 5, f. 2.] It is common around Llan Cartis Road and Kuna Llala.
References
photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isotype of ''Zamia cunaria''
cunaria
Endemic flora of Panama
Plants described in 1993
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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