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Cycadaceae

Cycas

Cycas taiwaniana Carruth.

First published in J. Bot. 31: 2 (1893)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is China (SW. Fujian), Hainan. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

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Native to:

China Southeast, Hainan

Homotypic Synonyms

Cycas revoluta var. taiwaniana (Carruth.) J.Schust. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 1: 84 (1932)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Cycas hainanensis C.J.Chen in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 13(4): 82 (1975)
Cycas lingshuigensis G.A.Fu in Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 24: 387 (2004)
Cycas shanyaensis G.A.Fu in Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 26: 2 (2006)

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Streptophyta
Class Equisetopsida
Subclass Cycadidae
Order
Cycadales

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Family
Cycadaceae

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Genus
Cycas

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Species
Cycas taiwaniana

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Feng, X.Y. & al. (2021). Species delimitation with distinct methods based on molecular data to elucidate species boundaries in the Cycas taiwaniana complex (Cycadaceae). Taxon 70: 477-491.
Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Osborne, R., Calonje, M.A., Hill, K.D., Stanberg, L. & Stevenson, D.W. (2012). The world list of Cycads. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 106: 480-510.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Feng, X.Y. & al. (2021). Species delimitation with distinct methods based on molecular data to elucidate species boundaries in the Cycas taiwaniana complex (Cycadaceae). Taxon 70: 477-491.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

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EDGE Gymnosperms
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IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0