''Zamia skinneri'' 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 coastal area of mainland Bocas del Toro Province,

Panama 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 Cos ...

. Its common name is ''cebolla roja''. This has long been considered to be a variable plant that was likely a species complex, with individuals actually belonging to several undescribed species. In 2008 some populations were studied, characterized as new species, and renamed '' Zamia hamannii'', ''

Zamia imperialis ''Zamia imperialis'' is a species of cycad 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 ...

'', and ''

Zamia nesophila ''Zamia nesophila'' is a species of cycad 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 ...

''.Haynes, J. L. and G. Holzman. (2008)
Taxonomical, nomenclatural and biogeographical revelations in the ''Zamia skinneri'' complex of Central America (Cycadales: Zamiaceae).
''Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society'', 158(3), 399-429. This separation reduced the size of the population of actual ''Z. skinneri'' to fewer than 500.

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