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Zamia lindenii

COMMON NAME

None known

TYPE

Cycad

FAMILY

Zamiaceae

NOTES

This rare and beautiful species is from Ecuador, South America.  This is a large cycad with trunks over ten feet tall, six to ten inches in diameter.  Trunks are a rather smooth with a brown color.  The crown of leaves consists of well over ten leaves, each six to eight feet long at maturity.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Grows on the slopes of the Andes of lower Pacific of Ecuador, and the extreme south of Colombia

NATIVE HABITAT

Semi-open seasonal (transitional) evergreen rainforest to evergreen rainforest

WEB SOURCES

tropical.theferns.info

cycad.org

junglemusic.net



Zamia lindenii