Zamia lacandona: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Cycadopsida
- Order
- Cycadales
- Family
- Zamiaceae
- Genus
- Zamia
- Species
- Zamia lacandona
- Scientific Name
- Zamia lacandona
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Zamia lacandona
Zamia lacandona is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it occurs only in the state of Chiapas, near Palenque and Agua Azul.
This plant grows 15 to 60 centimeters tall from an underground caudex. It usually produces a single leaf up to 100 centimeters long by 80 wide. The leaf has up to 12 pairs of leaflets. The species is named for its native rainforest habitat, the Lacandon Jungle, the Selva Lacandona.
This species is threatened by slash-and-burn agriculture. It can sometimes regenerate in degraded habitat that has been burned and cleared, and can be seen growing in agricultural fields and on roadsides.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Zamia amplifolia
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- Zamia brasiliensis
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- Zamia cunaria
- Zamia decumbens
- Zamia disodon
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- 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
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