Cycas calcicola: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Cycadopsida
- Order
- Cycadales
- Family
- Cycadaceae
- Genus
- Cycas
- Species
- Cycas calcicola
- Scientific Name
- Cycas calcicola
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cycas calcicola
Cycas calcicola is a species of cycad in the genus Cycas, native to northern Australia in the northwest of Northern Territory.
The stems are erect, 2–5 m tall and 16–22 cm diameter. The leaves are variably deep green and glabrous to white tomentose above, and persistently white tomentose below, 60–130 cm long, pinnate, with 210-410 leaflets. The leaflets are 5–12 cm long and 2–4 mm wide, and lie flat either side of the leaf stem (not in a 'v'-shape like most other Cycas species). The petioles are 18–30 cm long, and armed with sharp spines at the base.
The female cones are open, with sporophylls 12–18 cm long, with four to six ovules per sporophyll. The lamina is lanceolate, with spined dentate margins and an apical spine. The sarcotesta is orange-brown, the sclerotesta short ovoid to globular, with a network of shallow grooves. The male cones are solitary, narrow ovoid, 25–30 cm long and 5–7 cm diameter, brown, the sporophylls 25–30 mm long with an upturned apical spine.
...Cycas calcicola in languages:
- Chinese
- 灰岩蘇鐵
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Parent Taxon
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- Cycas circinalis
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- Cycas collina
- Cycas condaoensis
- Cycas conferta
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- Cycas cupida
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- Cycas edentata
- Cycas elephantipes
- Cycas elongata
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- Cycas fugax
- Cycas furfuracea
- Cycas glauca
- Cycas guizhouensis
- Cycas hainanensis
- Cycas hoabinhensis
- Cycas hongheensis
- Cycas indica
- Cycas inermis
- Cycas javana
- Cycas lacrimans
- Cycas lane-poolei
- Cycas laotica
- Cycas lindstromii
- Cycas maconochiei
- Cycas macrocarpa
- Cycas media
- Cycas megacarpa
- Cycas micholitzii
- Cycas micronesica
- Cycas mindanaensis
- Cycas montana
- Cycas multipinnata
- Cycas nathorstii
- Cycas nayagarhensis
- Cycas nitida
- Cycas nongnoochiae
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- Cycas pachypoda
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