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Macrozamia
''Macrozamia'' is a genus of around forty cycad species endemic to Australia. Many parts of the plant have been utilised for food and material, most of which is toxic if not processed correctly. Description A genus of cycads with partially submerged bole or tree, small to medium height, bearing a crown of palm-like fronds. The dioecious plants bear large cones, becoming even larger when ripening on the female, containing reproductive parts of great size. Taxonomy The first description of the genus was published in 1842 by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel in his ''Monographia Cycadearum'', without designating a type. The common name "burrawang", originally referring to ''M. communis'' in the Daruk Australian Aboriginal language, is often used for all the species in the genus. Informal names published in state listing for the genus include 'rickets' (Bailey, 1931) in Queensland, a name also used in Western Australia for the symptoms of ingestion of species by cattle, and term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Macrozamia'' is a genus of around forty cycad species endemic (ecology), endemic to Australia. Many parts of the plant have been utilised for food and material, most of which is toxic if not processed correctly. Description A genus of cycads with partially submerged bole or tree, small to medium height, bearing a crown of palm-like fronds. The dioecious plants bear large cones, becoming even larger when ripening on the female, containing reproductive parts of great size. Taxonomy The first description of the genus was published in 1842 by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel in his ''Monographia Cycadearum'', without designating a type. The common name "burrawang", originally referring to ''M. communis'' in the Dharuk language, Daruk Australian Aboriginal language, is often used for all the species in the genus. Informal names published in state listing for the genus include 'rickets' (Bailey, 1931) in Queensland, a name also used in Western Australia for the symptoms of inges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Glaucophylla
''Macrozamia glaucophylla'' is a species of cycad from the genus ''Macrozamia'' and the family Zamiaceae. Endemic to New South Wales, Australia, this species has features that resembles Arecaceae, palms, although both species are taxonomically quite different. The current population trend of ''Macrozamia glaucophylla'' is stable with 2,500 to 10,000 mature individuals. The species are found in several habitats including forest and savanna. Ecologically, ''Macrozamia glaucophylla'' lives in Terrestrial plant, terrestrial system, a land-based community of organisms where the Biotic component, biotic and abiotic components interact in the given area. It is also known as zamia, zamia 'palm', wild pineapple, burrawang (NSW). Description ''Macrozamia glaucophylla'' is a small to medium-sized cycad that has a normally subterranean unbranched caudex and has glaucous blue fronds with divided Pinna (botany), pinnae. The median pinnae are usually dichotomously branched, while the basal Pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Mountperriensis
''Macrozamia mountperriensis'' is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae endemic to the area around Mount Perry in Queensland; however, it is not considered threatened due to its large population in the area. The species was discovered by colonial botanists including Frederick Manson Bailey and James Keys in the late 1800s. All members of the Zamiaceae family are considered to be poisonous. Description ''Macrozamia mountperriensis'' is distinguished from related species by its small stature and light green leaves. Leaves are pinnate with 50 to 110 leaflets. The stems range between in height, and the leaves are around long on average. Leaflets are straight, approximately 5-9 mm wid.e Leaves vary in colour depending on age: leaves are lighter green with yellow undertones, whilst the mature leaves are darker. The plant is also distinguishable by cylinder cones growing from the root of the plant. Male cones are long and around in diameter. Female cones are inches l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Concinna
''Macrozamia concinna'' is a part of the plant family, Zamiaceae. It originates from a division of Cycadophyta which encompasses the complete species of cycads. ''M. concinna'' is primarily habituated in New South Wales, Australia and maintains a distinct appearance allowing it to be easily identifiable from other cycads. ''M. concinna'' also implements a unique method of reproduction to fertilise its offsprings, as opposed to the common method of wind pollination. This difference in reproduction mechanisms has survived throughout the ages of prehistoric cycad species and ''M. concinna'' continues to procreate with it. The population of ''M. concinna'' is under threat from habitat loss associated with urbanisation, potential reproduction failure and loss to fire. Etymology ''M. concinna'' was named in 1988 by D.L. Jones, classifying the plant after its prim and proper appearance, where it was finally recognised as its own separate species. Prior to its unique classification, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Spiralis
''Macrozamia spiralis'' is a species of cycad in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to New South Wales in eastern Australia, where it is found in sclerophyll forest on low-nutrient soils. Plants generally lack a trunk and have 2–12 leaves that range up to 100 cm (40 in) in length. Taxonomy Richard Anthony Salisbury described this species as ''Zamia spiralis'' in 1796, from a collection made somewhere in the vicinity of Port Jackson (Sydney); however, no type specimen is extant. Dutch botanist Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel gave it its current name in 1842. Meanwhile, Joseph Dalton Hooker described ''M. corallipes'' from a plate in 1872. For many years, the name ''M. spiralis'' was applied to the large common cycad from the Sydney region, while its smaller relative was known as ''M. corallipes''. In 1959, New South Wales Herbarium botanist Lawrie Johnson examined the species descriptions and determined that Salisbury's original description was in fact of the smaller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Moorei
''Macrozamia moorei'' is a cycad in the family Zamiaceae, native to Queensland (Australia). The species was described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1881, naming it after Charles Moore (1820–1905), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Description ''Macrozamia moorei'' is the tallest-growing species of ''Macrozamia'', growing to tall with a trunk 50–80 cm diameter. It has keeled leaves up to long, with short petioles bearing numerous spines, and 120–220 leaflets, each leaflet 20–35 cm long and 5–10 mm broad. ;Cultivation The plant is cultivated by specialty plant nurseries as an ornamental plant Ornamental plants or ''garden plants'' are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars th .... Gallery Image:Macrozamia moorei02.jpg, ''Macrozamia moorei'' - Pollen cone References * Jones, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Communis
''Macrozamia communis'' is an Australian cycad found on the east coast of New South Wales. The common name for the species is burrawang, a word derived from the Daruk Australian Aboriginal language; this name is also often applied to other species of ''Macrozamia''. The burrawang has the most extensive distribution of any cycad in New South Wales and is found along the coast from the district around Armidale, New South Wales to Bega 700 km south and on the coastal slopes of the Great Dividing Range with some instances on the inland slopes of the range; as far west as the Mudgee district. It is most abundant on the south coast of the state. The plants grow in open forests. Seed cones are formed after fire. Male and female seed cones are on separate plants and the large female seeds are ripe when red or yellow. Individual specimens take 10–20 years to mature and may live for up to 120 years. Seedlings of ''Macrozamia communis'' have a tuber and coralloid roots that ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Macdonnellii
''Macrozamia macdonnellii'', common name MacDonnell Ranges Cycad, is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to the Northern Territory, Australia. ''Macrozamia macdonnellii'' is not eaten by the Arrernte people of the Macdonnell Ranges due to the extensive process of toxin leaching that is required. Description ''Macrozamia macdonnellii'' has large, frond-like pinnate bluish-green leaves which radiate from the top of a stocky trunk. The male and female reproductive cones are on separate plants, with the female cone being broader than the male and partially enclosing seeds the size of an egg which have a bright red outer layer (sarcotesta). Taxonomy It was first named ''Encephalartos macdonnellii'' by Ferdinand von Mueller, and published by Miquel in ''Over de Cycadeen in Nieuw-Holland. Verslagen en Mededeelingen van de afdeeling Natuurkunde'' in 1863.Miquel, F.A.W. (1863) Over de Cycadeen in Nieuw-Holland. Verslagen en Mededeelingen van de afdeeling Natuur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Fraseri
''Macrozamia fraseri'' is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to the south west of Western Australia, and restricted largely to the sandy soils of the Swan Coastal Plain and Geraldton Sandplains. The range of ''Macrozamia fraseri'' overlaps that of ''Macrozamia riedlei''. The Noongar peoples know the plant as djiridji. Taxonomy The species was first described by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel. Description The form of the species is a low-trunked cycad or upright tree, being highly variable. Leaves are dull and distinctly keeled, leaflets are medium or small. The species grows in low heath, without jarrah (''Eucalyptus marginata''), on sand. ''Macrozamia fraseri'' is typical of cycads in being slow-growing, perennial, evergreen and dioecious Dioecy ( ; ; adj. dioecious, ) is a characteristic of certain species that have distinct unisexual individuals, each producing either male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Dyeri
''Macrozamia dyeri'', known as ''djeeri'', is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia, occurring near Esperance. The seeds are consumable when prepared correctly and were an important resource to people of the region, but the plant is otherwise toxic to many species. Taxonomy First described in 1885 by Ferdinand von Mueller as ''Encephalartos dyeri'' (''Macrozamia dyeri''), the current combination as a species of the Australian genus ''Macrozamia'' was published by Charles Gardner in 1930. The species name honors W. Thiselton Dyer, then assistant director of Kew Garden. The similar but differently pronounced word ''djeeri'' (recorded as ''Dji-ri-ji'' 'Zamia' by Symons) is a name for Macrozamia in the Nyungar language. Description A cycad with a large above ground trunk, taking the form of a tree. The foliage is deeply keeled with wide leaflets, and the reproductive cones are narrow and extended. Ecology The species is found in coastal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Polymorpha
''Macrozamia polymorpha'' is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to New South Wales, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... References polymorpha Endemic flora of Australia Flora of New South Wales Cycadophyta of Australia Least concern flora of Australia Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Australia-plant-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrozamia Fawcettii
''Macrozamia fawcettii'' is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to New South Wales, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... References fawcettii Least concern flora of Australia Flora of New South Wales Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Australia-plant-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
