Macrozamia macdonnellii
{{Short description|Species of cycad}}
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| image_caption = Macrozamia macdonnellii
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Macrozamia
| species = macdonnellii
| authority = (F.Muell. ex Miq.) A.DC.
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| range_map = Macrozamia macdonnellii Dist Map15.png
| range_map_caption = Occurrence data from AVH
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Macrozamia macdonnellii, common name MacDonnell Ranges Cycad, is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to the Northern Territory, Australia.
Macrozamia macdonnellii is not eaten by the Arrernte people of the Macdonnell Ranges due to the extensive process of toxin leaching that is required.
Description
Macrozamia macdonnellii has large, frond-like pinnate bluish-green leaves which radiate from the top of a stocky trunk. The male and female reproductive cones are on separate plants, with the female cone being broader than the male and partially enclosing seeds the size of an egg which have a bright red outer layer (sarcotesta).
Taxonomy
It was first named Encephalartos macdonnellii by Ferdinand von Mueller, and published by Miquel in Over de Cycadeen in Nieuw-Holland. Verslagen en Mededeelingen van de afdeeling Natuurkunde in 1863.{{APNI2|id=93016|name=Encephalartos macdonnellii|accessdate=28 December 2018}}Miquel, F.A.W. (1863) Over de Cycadeen in Nieuw-Holland. Verslagen en Mededeelingen van de afdeeling Natuurkunde, Koninklijke [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39139360 Akademie van Wetenschappen 15: 376.] In 1868, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle reassigned it to the genus, Macrozamia, thereby giving it the name, Macrozamia macdonnellii.
References
External links
- [http://eflora.nt.gov.au/factsheet?id=5989 FloraNT Northern Territory Flora online: Macrozamia macdonnellii.]
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Category:Endemic flora of Australia
Category:Flora of the Northern Territory
Category:Cycadophyta of Australia
Category:Least concern flora of Australia
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Category:Plants described in 1868
Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
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