- Family: Zamiaceae Horan.
Encephalartos Lehm.
[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 aemulans Vorster
- Encephalartos altensteinii Lehm.
- Encephalartos aplanatus Vorster
- Encephalartos arenarius R.A.Dyer
- Encephalartos barteri Carruth. ex Miq.
- Encephalartos brevifoliolatus Vorster
- Encephalartos bubalinus Melville
- Encephalartos caffer (Thunb.) Lehm.
- Encephalartos cerinus Lavranos & D.L.Goode
- Encephalartos chimanimaniensis R.A.Dyer & I.Verd.
- Encephalartos concinnus R.A.Dyer & I.Verd.
- Encephalartos cupidus R.A.Dyer
- Encephalartos cycadifolius (Jacq.) Lehm.
- Encephalartos delucanus Malaisse, Sclavo & Crosiers
- Encephalartos dolomiticus Lavranos & D.L.Goode
- Encephalartos dyerianus Lavranos & D.L.Goode
- Encephalartos equatorialis P.J.H.Hurter
- Encephalartos eugene-maraisii I.Verd.
- Encephalartos ferox G.Bertol.
- Encephalartos flavistrobilus I.S.Turner & Sclavo
- Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi Lehm.
- Encephalartos ghellinckii Lem.
- Encephalartos gratus Prain
- Encephalartos heenanii R.A.Dyer
- Encephalartos hildebrandtii A.Braun & C.D.Bouché
- Encephalartos hirsutus P.J.H.Hurter
- Encephalartos horridus (Jacq.) Lehm.
- Encephalartos humilis I.Verd.
- Encephalartos inopinus R.A.Dyer
- Encephalartos ituriensis Bamps & Lisowski
- Encephalartos kisambo Faden & Beentje
- Encephalartos laevifolius Stapf & Burtt Davy
- Encephalartos lanatus Stapf & Burtt Davy
- Encephalartos latifrons Lehm.
- Encephalartos laurentianus De Wild.
- Encephalartos lebomboensis I.Verd.
- Encephalartos lehmannii Lehm.
- Encephalartos longifolius (Jacq.) Lehm.
- Encephalartos mackenziei L.E.Newton
- Encephalartos macrostrobilus Scott Jones & Wynants
- Encephalartos manikensis (Gilliland) Gilliland
- Encephalartos marunguensis Devred
- Encephalartos middelburgensis Vorster, Robbertse & S.van der Westh.
- Encephalartos msinganus Vorster
- Encephalartos munchii R.A.Dyer & I.Verd.
- Encephalartos natalensis R.A.Dyer & I.Verd.
- Encephalartos ngoyanus I.Verd.
- Encephalartos nubimontanus P.J.H.Hurter
- Encephalartos paucidentatus Stapf & Burtt Davy
- Encephalartos poggei Asch.
- Encephalartos princeps R.A.Dyer
- Encephalartos pterogonus R.A.Dyer & I.Verd.
- Encephalartos relictus P.J.H.Hurter
- Encephalartos schaijesii Malaisse, Sclavo & Crosiers
- Encephalartos schmitzii Malaisse
- Encephalartos sclavoi De Luca, D.W.Stev. & A.Moretti
- Encephalartos senticosus Vorster
- Encephalartos septentrionalis Schweinf. ex Eichler
- Encephalartos tegulaneus Melville
- Encephalartos transvenosus Stapf & Burtt Davy
- Encephalartos trispinosus (Hook.f.) R.A.Dyer
- Encephalartos turneri Lavranos & D.L.Goode
- Encephalartos umbeluziensis R.A.Dyer
- Encephalartos villosus Lem.
- Encephalartos whitelockii P.J.H.Hurter
- Encephalartos woodii Sander
Encephalartos Lehm. appears in other Kew resources:
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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