Cycas platyphylla
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Cycas platyphylla | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
(unranked): | Gymnosperms |
Division: | Cycadophyta |
Class: | Cycadopsida |
Order: | Cycadales |
Family: | Cycadaceae |
Genus: | Cycas |
Species: | C. platyphylla
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Binomial name | |
Cycas platyphylla K.D.Hill
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Cycas platyphylla is a cycad in the genus Cycas, native to Queensland, Australia.
The stems are erect or decumbent, growing to 1.5 m tall but most often less than a metre. The leaves are pinnate, keeled, 60–100 cm long. New fronds are glaucous blue at first, becoming dark yellow-green, moderately glossy above. Megasporophylls are thickly covered in orange indumentum and the developing seeds have an intensely glaucous sarcotesta.
Habitat[]
This cycad has a main distribution in sparse Eucalyptus savanna on skeletal soils over outcrops of rhyolite or basalt west of the Atherton Tableland in north-east Queensland. This species is fire tolerant. It grows abundantly in cold habitat
Gallery[]
Wild plant in open savanna in north Queensland
With fire-blackened, branched caudex
Megasporophylls on a wild plant
Colony on an outcrop of rhyolite in open dry-tropical savanna in northern Queensland
References[]
- IUCN Red List endangered species
- Cycas
- Flora of Queensland
- Cycadophyta of Australia
- Endemic flora of Australia
- Endangered flora of Australia