Zamia fischeri
COMMON NAME | Fischer's Cycad |
TYPE | Cycad |
FAMILY | Zamiaceae |
NOTES | A
small cycad with a subterranean trunk, and leaves to about 30cm long. It has
thin paperish leaflets that hang down. Often mistaken for a fern. Zamia fischeri
is named after Gustav Fischer, a cycad enthusiast of the nineteenth century. |
GEOGRAPHIC REGION | Endemic to Mexico |
NATIVE
HABITAT | It
grows as an understory plant in the oak and cloud forests of central Mexico
at about 600 meters in elevation. |
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