''Cycas pranburiensis'' 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 ...
to
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
. It is found only in the
Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park area of
Prachuap Khiri Khan Province.
It is named after
Pran Buri District in Thailand, where it was discovered.
References
pranburiensis
Taxa named by Si Lin Yang
Taxa named by Ken Hill (botanist)
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