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Cycadaceae
Dyer, R.A. & Verdoorn, I.C. (1966) Zamiaceae Flora of Southern Africa 1
Dyer, R.A. & Verdoorn, I.C. (1969) Encephalartos manikensis and its near allies Kirkia 7(1)
Goode, D. (1989) Cycads of Africa Struik, Cape Town
Lewis, J. (1960) Cycadaceae (including Zamiaceae) Flora Zambesiaca 1(1)
Dioecious trees or shrubs. Trunk tall or very short, bearing spirally arranged leaf-bases and scale leaves. Leaves spirally arranged, pinnate; leaflets with longitudinal parallel veins and no midrib. Male cones consisting of leathery scales with numerous pollen-sacs on their abaxial surface. Female cones composed of thick and often woody, peltate scales bearing 2 (or more) ovules on their adaxial surface. Seeds angled, with a fleshy outer layer enclosing a hard inner shell. Worldwide: 8 genera and 125 species, tropical and warm Africa, Australia and America. Zimbabwe: 3 cultivated genera and 6 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Genus | Content |
| Encephalartos Lehm. | Description |
| Macrozamia Miq. | |
| Zamia L. | Description |
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