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Burrawang, Zamia
Conservation status: Endangered
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Known only from a few stands, some of which are conserved in Girraween National Park.
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Cycadales
Zamiaceae
Macrozamia
viridis
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Grows on sandy or gravelly soils over granite in the understory of moderately wet to open eucalypt woodlands.
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Macrozamia viridis is a small cycad with a subterranean trunk. The trunk can have up to six branches. The tops of the branches just clear the soil surface so that the leaf crowns look as if they are growing in a clump straight from the ground. Each crown may have 2-8 widely spreading leaf-fronds, each with 80-160 leaflets on them. The leaflets are a bright or deep green colour and are semi to highly glossy on the upper surface. They measure from 35-60 cm in length. The longest leaflets are in the middle of the frond. The central stem of each frond is strongly twisted, so that the leaflets spiral along its length.
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Individual plants are either male or female and produce one or two cones per stem. Male cones are cylindrical in shape and female cones are egg-shaped. The cones become mature between October and January and the seeds turn orange or red in March and April as they ripen. |
