Zamia angustifolia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Cycadopsida
- Order
- Cycadales
- Family
- Zamiaceae
- Genus
- Zamia
- Species
- Zamia angustifolia
- Scientific Name
- Zamia angustifolia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Zamia angustifolia
Zamia angustifolia is a species of plant in the genus Zamia. It is found in the Bahamas, where it is threatened by habitat loss, and in Cuba, where it is abundant.
Z. angustifolia has dark gray to black strobili (cones) with acuminate points.
It is found in the Bahamas only at two sites on coastal sand dunes on Eleuthera. A survey in the early 2010s found only 150 plants. Z. integrifolia is also found on Eleuthera, but the two species ranges do not overlap. The limited number of plants and sites, and the development of nearby areas for housing create the highest concern for conservation of the Bahamian population of the species. Z. angustifolia is also found in semi-deciduous dry forests in eastern Cuba (Guantánamo, Oriente, and Santiago de Cuba provinces). It is abundant in Cuba, but the taxonomic relationship between the Bahamian and Cuban populations needs further study.
In 1889 Gardiner and Brace listed just one Zamia species in the Bahamas, Z. angustifolia, which they referred to as "bay rush". They reported that plants of the species were harvested on Andros and New Providence islands to produce starch sold in Nassau markets. As of 2024, the Zamia plants on Andros and New Providence islands are assigned to Z. integrifolia.
Z. angustifolia is part of the Zamia pumila species complex.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Zamia acuminata
- Zamia amazonum
- Zamia amplifolia
- Zamia angustifolia
- Zamia boliviana
- Zamia brasiliensis
- Zamia chigua
- Zamia cremnophila
- Zamia cunaria
- Zamia decumbens
- Zamia disodon
- Zamia dressleri
- Zamia elegantissima
- Zamia encephalartoides
- Zamia erosa
- Zamia fairchildiana
- Zamia fischeri
- Zamia furfuracea
- Zamia gentryi
- Zamia gomeziana
- Zamia grijalvensis
- Zamia hamannii
- Zamia herrerae
- Zamia huilensis
- Zamia hymenophyllidia
- Zamia imperialis
- Zamia incognita
- Zamia inermis
- Zamia integrifolia
- Zamia ipetiensis
- Zamia lacandona
- Zamia lecointei
- Zamia lindenii
- Zamia lindleyi
- Zamia lindosensis
- Zamia loddigesii
- Zamia lucayana
- Zamia macrochiera
- Zamia manicata
- Zamia meermanii
- Zamia melanorrhachis
- Zamia montana
- Zamia monticola
- Zamia muricata
- Zamia nana
- Zamia nesophila
- Zamia neurophyllidia
- Zamia obliqua
- Zamia oligodonta
- Zamia onan-reyesii
- Zamia oreillyi
- Zamia orinoquiensis
- Zamia paucifoliolata
- Zamia paucijuga
- Zamia poeppigiana
- Zamia portoricensis
- Zamia prasina
- Zamia pseudomonticola
- Zamia pseudoparasitica
- Zamia pumila
- Zamia purpurea
- Zamia pygmaea
- Zamia pyrophylla
- Zamia restrepoi
- Zamia roezlii
- Zamia sandovalii
- Zamia skinneri
- Zamia soconuscensis
- Zamia spartea
- Zamia standleyi
- Zamia stenophyllidia
- Zamia stevensonii
- Zamia stricta
- Zamia tolimensis
- Zamia tuerckheimii
- Zamia ulei
- Zamia urep
- Zamia variegata
- Zamia vazquezii
- Zamia verschaffeltii
- Zamia wallisii
- Zamia × katzeriana