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|accepted_name=Zamia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|place=2: 659. 1762
|year=1762
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Zamiaceae;Zamia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Zamiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Zamia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Derivation equivocal, perhaps from misreading of Latin azania, a kind of pine cone, or from Latin zamia, loss, from the "sterile appearance" of the pollen cones
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>often branched, subterranean to aboveground. <b>Leaves</b> broadly oblong-elliptic; leaflets entire to coarsely dentate, without midribs, venation dichotomous but appearing parallel. <b>Cones</b> distinctly peduncled. <b>Pollen</b> cones more slender than seed cones. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Subtropics and tropics;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Zamia
|authority=Linnaeus
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|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
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|family=Zamiaceae
|distribution=Subtropics and tropics;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|publication year=1762
|special status=
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|genus=Zamia
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