Family:
Zamiaceae Horan.

Encephalartos Lehm.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & S. Africa.

[FTEA]

Gymnospermae, R. Melville. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1958

Morphology General Habit
Shrubs or trees with erect or prostrate, rarely branched, trunks clothed with woody leaf bases
Morphology Leaves
Leaves, oblong to linear; leaflets linear-lanceolate to ovate or oblong-lanceolate, with many parallel nerves, spine tipped and more or less spiny toothed, rarely entire, the lowermost often reduced to spines, straight in the bud
sex Male
Male cones stalked, 1–several, of closely imbricate scales with subpeltate apex (bulla) and a limb closely covered below with ellipsoid pollen sacs
Morphology Reproductive morphology Cones
Female cones nearly sessile; cone-scales with a peltate to subreniform head (bulla), variously faceted and sculptured, bearing a large inverted ovule on either side of the slender quadrangular stalk Male cones stalked, 1–several, of closely imbricate scales with subpeltate apex (bulla) and a limb closely covered below with ellipsoid pollen sacs
sex Female
Female cones nearly sessile; cone-scales with a peltate to subreniform head (bulla), variously faceted and sculptured, bearing a large inverted ovule on either side of the slender quadrangular stalk
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds ellipsoid or oblong, often angular by compression.

Native to:

Angola, Benin, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Ghana, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Encephalartos Lehm. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Drummond [1372], Tanzania 22041.000 No
Uganda 34694.000 No

First published in Nov. Stirp. Pug. 6: 3 (1834)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.

Literature

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 6, 2: 346.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Pugill. Pl. 6 : 3 (1834)

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

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