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Zamia
Sp. Pl., ed. 2 2: 659. 1762.
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
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.
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Stems often branched, subterranean to aboveground. Leaves broadly oblong-elliptic; leaflets entire to coarsely dentate, without midribs, venation dichotomous but appearing parallel. Cones distinctly peduncled. Pollen cones more slender than seed cones. x = 8.
Distribution
Subtropics and tropics, North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America.
Discussion
Species ca. 30 (1 in the flora).
Selected References
None.