List of cycad species by country
Below is a list of cycad species by ordered by country.
Africa[]
Southern Africa[]
South Africa[]
- Encephalartos aemulans
- Encephalartos altensteinii
- Encephalartos arenarius
- Encephalartos brevifoliolatus
- Encephalartos caffer
- Encephalartos cerinus
- Encephalartos cupidus
- Encephalartos cycadifolius
- Encephalartos dolomiticus
- Encephalartos dyerianus
- Encephalartos eugene-maraisii
- Encephalartos ferox
- Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi
- Encephalartos ghellinckii
- Encephalartos heenanii
- Encephalartos hirsutus
- Encephalartos horridus
- Encephalartos humilis
- Encephalartos inopinus
- Encephalartos laevifolius
- Encephalartos lanatus
- Encephalartos latifrons
- Encephalartos lebomboensis
- Encephalartos lehmannii
- Encephalartos longifolius
- Encephalartos middelburgensis
- Encephalartos msinganus
- Encephalartos natalensis
- Encephalartos ngoyanus
- Encephalartos nubimontanus
- Encephalartos paucidentatus
- Encephalartos princeps
- Encephalartos senticosus
- Encephalartos transvenosus
- Encephalartos trispinosus
- Encephalartos villosus
- Encephalartos woodii
- Stangeria eriopus
Eswatini[]
- Encephalartos aplanatus
- Encephalartos heenanii
- Encephalartos laevifolius
- Encephalartos lebomboensis
- Encephalartos ngoyanus
- Encephalartos paucidentatus
- Encephalartos relictus
- Encephalartos senticosus
- Encephalartos umbeluziensis
- Encephalartos villosus
Mozambique[]
- Cycas thouarsii
- Encephalartos chimanimaniensis
- Encephalartos ferox
- Encephalartos gratus
- Encephalartos lebomboensis
- Encephalartos manikensis
- Encephalartos munchii
- Encephalartos pterogonus
- Encephalartos turneri
- Encephalartos umbeluziensis
Malawi[]
Zimbabwe[]
Zambia[]
Angola[]
Democratic Republic of the Congo[]
- Encephalartos laurentianus
- Encephalartos ituriensis
- Encephalartos marunguensis
- Encephalartos poggei
- Encephalartos schaijesii
- Encephalartos schmitzii
East Africa[]
Cycas thouarsii is the most geographically widespread species, and is found in Indian Ocean islands as well.
Tanzania[]
- Cycas thouarsii
- Encephalartos bubalinus
- Encephalartos delucanus
- Encephalartos hildebrandtii
- Encephalartos sclavoi
Kenya[]
- Cycas thouarsii
- Encephalartos bubalinus
- Encephalartos hildebrandtii
- Encephalartos kisambo
- Encephalartos tegulaneus
- Encephalartos tegulaneus subsp. powysii
Uganda[]
- Encephalartos equatorialis
- Encephalartos macrostrobilus
- Encephalartos septentrionalis
- Encephalartos whitelockii
South Sudan[]
Madagascar[]
- Cycas thouarsii
Comoros[]
- Cycas thouarsii
Seychelles[]
- Cycas thouarsii
West Africa[]
Encephalartos barteri is the only cycad species recorded in West Africa.
Nigeria[]
- Encephalartos barteri
- Encephalartos barteri subsp. allochrous
Benin[]
- Encephalartos barteri
Togo[]
- ?Encephalartos barteri
Ghana[]
- Encephalartos barteri
South Asia[]
Cycas pectinata has the most widespread distribution in South Asia, and is the only South Asian cycad species found outside India and Sri Lanka.
India[]
- Cycas andamanica
- Cycas annaikalensis
- Cycas beddomei
- Cycas circinalis
- Cycas indica
- Cycas nathorstii
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas sphaerica
- Cycas zeylanica
Sri Lanka[]
- Cycas nathorstii
- Cycas zeylanica
Bangladesh[]
- Cycas pectinata
Bhutan[]
- Cycas pectinata
Nepal[]
- Cycas pectinata
East Asia[]
Japan[]
- Cycas revoluta
China[]
- Cycas balansae
- Cycas bifida
- Cycas changjiangensis
- Cycas chenii
- Cycas debaoensis
- Cycas diannanensis
- Cycas dolichophylla
- Cycas ferruginea
- Cycas guizhouensis
- Cycas hainanensis
- Cycas hongheensis
- Cycas multipinnata
- Cycas panzhihuaensis
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas revoluta
- Cycas segmentifida
- Cycas sexseminifera
- Cycas shanyaensis
- Cycas szechuanensis
- Cycas szechuanensis subsp. fairylakea
- Cycas taiwaniana
- Cycas tanqingii
Taiwan[]
- Cycas taitungensis
Southeast Asia[]
Vietnam[]
- Cycas aculeata
- Cycas balansae
- Cycas bifida
- Cycas brachycantha
- Cycas chevalieri
- Cycas clivicola
- Cycas collina
- Cycas condaoensis
- Cycas diannanensis
- Cycas dolichophylla
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas elongata
- Cycas ferruginea
- Cycas fugax
- Cycas hoabinhensis
- Cycas inermis
- Cycas lindstromii
- Cycas micholitzii
- Cycas multipinnata
- Cycas pachypoda
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas segmentifida
- Cycas sexseminifera
- Cycas siamensis
- Cycas simplicipinna
- ?Cycas tanqingii
- Cycas tropophylla
Laos[]
- ?Cycas micholitzii
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas siamensis
- Cycas simplicipinna
Thailand[]
- Cycas chamaoensis
- Cycas clivicola
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas elephantipes
- Cycas macrocarpa
- Cycas nongnoochiae
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas petraea
- Cycas pranburiensis
- Cycas siamensis
- Cycas simplicipinna
- Cycas tansachana
Cambodia[]
Myanmar[]
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas siamensis
- Cycas simplicipinna
Malaysia[]
- Cycas cantafolia
- Cycas clivicola
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas macrocarpa
Singapore[]
- Cycas edentata
Philippines[]
- Cycas aenigma
- Cycas curranii
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas lacrimans
- Cycas nitida
- Cycas riuminiana
- Cycas sancti-lasallei
- Cycas saxatilis
- Cycas vespertilio
- Cycas wadei
- Cycas zambalensis
Indonesia[]
- Cycas apoa
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas falcata
- Cycas glauca
- Cycas javana
- Cycas montana
- Cycas papuana
- Cycas rumphii
- Cycas scratchleyana
- Cycas sundaica
East Timor[]
Oceania[]
The eastern coast of Australia contains the most diversity. Cycas seemannii is found in Melanesia and western Polynesia. Cycas micronesica is found in Micronesia.
Australia[]
- Bowenia serrulata
- Bowenia spectabilis
- Cycas angulata
- Cycas arenicola
- Cycas armstrongii
- Cycas arnhemica
- Cycas arnhemica subsp. muninga
- Cycas arnhemica subsp. natja
- Cycas badensis
- Cycas basaltica
- Cycas brunnea
- Cycas cairnsiana
- Cycas calcicola
- Cycas canalis
- Cycas candida
- Cycas conferta
- Cycas couttsiana
- Cycas cupida
- Cycas desolata
- Cycas furfuracea
- Cycas lane-poolei
- Cycas maconochiei
- Cycas maconochiei subsp. lanata
- Cycas maconochiei subsp. viridis
- Cycas media
- Cycas media subsp. ensata
- Cycas media subsp. banksii
- Cycas megacarpa
- Cycas ophiolitica
- Cycas orientis
- Cycas platyphylla
- Cycas pruinosa
- Cycas rumphii
- Cycas seemannii
- Cycas semota
- Cycas silvestris
- Cycas tuckeri
- Cycas xipholepis
- Cycas yorkiana
- Lepidozamia hopei
- Lepidozamia peroffskyana
- Macrozamia cardiacensis
- Macrozamia communis
- Macrozamia concinna
- Macrozamia conferta
- Macrozamia cranei
- Macrozamia crassifolia
- Macrozamia diplomera
- Macrozamia douglasii
- Macrozamia dyeri
- Macrozamia elegans
- Macrozamia fawcettii
- Macrozamia fearnsidei
- Macrozamia flexuosa
- Macrozamia fraseri
- Macrozamia glaucophylla
- Macrozamia heteromera
- Macrozamia humilis
- Macrozamia johnsonii
- Macrozamia lomandroides
- Macrozamia longispina
- Macrozamia lucida
- Macrozamia macdonnellii
- Macrozamia machinii
- Macrozamia macleayi
- Macrozamia miquelii
- Macrozamia montana
- Macrozamia moorei
- Macrozamia mountperriensis
- Macrozamia occidua
- Macrozamia parcifolia
- Macrozamia pauli-guilielmi
- Macrozamia platyrhachis
- Macrozamia plurinervia
- Macrozamia polymorpha
- Macrozamia reducta
- Macrozamia riedlei
- Macrozamia secunda
- Macrozamia serpentina
- Macrozamia spiralis
- Macrozamia stenomera
- Macrozamia viridis
Papua New Guinea[]
- Cycas apoa
- Cycas bougainvilleana
- Cycas campestris
- Cycas papuana
- Cycas rumphii
- Cycas schumanniana
- Cycas scratchleyana
Solomon Islands[]
- Cycas bougainvilleana
New Caledonia[]
Vanuatu[]
Fiji[]
Tonga[]
Palau[]
- Cycas micronesica
Micronesia[]
- Cycas micronesica
Guam[]
- Cycas micronesica
Northern Mariana Islands[]
- Cycas micronesica
North America and Caribbean[]
United States[]
- Zamia integrifolia
Bahamas[]
- Zamia angustifolia
- Zamia integrifolia
- Zamia lucayana
Cayman Islands[]
- Zamia integrifolia
Cuba[]
- Zamia angustifolia
- Zamia erosa
- Zamia integrifolia
- Zamia pumila
- Zamia pygmaea
- Zamia stricta
- Microcycas calocoma
Dominican Republic[]
- Zamia pumila
Puerto Rico[]
- Zamia erosa
- Zamia portoricensis
- Zamia pumila
Jamaica[]
- Zamia erosa
Central America[]
Mexico[]
- Ceratozamia alvarezii
- Ceratozamia becerrae
- Ceratozamia brevifrons
- Ceratozamia chimalapensis
- Ceratozamia decumbens
- Ceratozamia euryphyllidia
- Ceratozamia fuscoviridis
- Ceratozamia hildae
- Ceratozamia huastecorum
- Ceratozamia kuesteriana
- Ceratozamia latifolia
- Ceratozamia matudae
- Ceratozamia mexicana
- Ceratozamia microstrobila
- Ceratozamia miqueliana
- Ceratozamia mirandae
- Ceratozamia mixeorum
- Ceratozamia morettii
- Ceratozamia norstogii
- Ceratozamia robusta
- Ceratozamia sabatoi
- Ceratozamia santillanii
- Ceratozamia vovidesii
- Ceratozamia whitelockiana
- Ceratozamia zaragozae
- Ceratozamia zoquorum
- Dioon angustifolium
- Dioon argenteum
- Dioon califanoi
- Dioon caputoi
- Dioon edule
- Dioon holmgrenii
- Dioon merolae
- Dioon purpusii
- Dioon rzedowskii
- Dioon sonorense
- Dioon spinulosum
- Dioon stevensonii
- Dioon tomasellii
- Zamia cremnophila
- Zamia fischeri
- Zamia furfuracea
- Zamia grijalvensis
- Zamia herrerae
- Zamia inermis
- Zamia katzeriana
- Zamia lacandona
- Zamia loddigesii
- Zamia paucijuga
- Zamia prasina
- Zamia purpurea
- Zamia soconuscensis
- Zamia spartea
- Zamia variegata
- Zamia vazquezii
Belize[]
- Ceratozamia robusta
- Zamia decumbens
- Zamia meermanii
- Zamia prasina
- Zamia variegata
Guatemala[]
- Ceratozamia matudae
- Ceratozamia robusta
- Zamia herrerae
- Zamia monticola
- Zamia prasina
- Zamia standleyi
- Zamia tuerckheimii
- Zamia variegata
El Salvador[]
- Zamia herrerae
Honduras[]
- Ceratozamia hondurensis
- Dioon mejiae
- Zamia onan-reyesii
- Zamia oreillyi
- Zamia sandovalii
- Zamia standleyi
Nicaragua[]
Costa Rica[]
Panama[]
- Zamia cunaria
- Zamia dressleri
- Zamia elegantissima
- Zamia fairchildiana
- Zamia hamannii
- Zamia imperialis
- Zamia ipetiensis
- Zamia lindleyi
- Zamia manicata
- Zamia nana
- Zamia nesophila
- Zamia neurophyllidia
- Zamia obliqua
- Zamia pseudomonticola
- Zamia pseudoparasitica
- Zamia skinneri
- Zamia stevensonii
South America[]
Colombia[]
- Zamia amazonum
- Zamia amplifolia
- Zamia chigua
- Zamia disodon
- Zamia encephalartoides
- Zamia huilensis
- Zamia hymenophyllidia
- Zamia incognita
- Zamia lecointei
- Zamia manicata
- Zamia melanorrhachis
- Zamia montana
- Zamia muricata
- Zamia obliqua
- Zamia pyrophylla
- Zamia restrepoi
- Zamia roezlii
- Zamia tolimensis
- Zamia ulei
- Zamia wallisii
Ecuador[]
- Zamia amazonum
- Zamia gentryi
- Zamia lindenii
- Zamia roezlii
- Zamia ulei
Peru[]
- Zamia amazonum
- Zamia hymenophyllidia
- Zamia lecointei
- Zamia lindenii
- Zamia macrochiera
- Zamia poeppigiana
- Zamia ulei
- Zamia urep
Bolivia[]
Venezuela[]
Brazil[]
References[]
- Catherine Rutherford, John Donaldson, Alex Hudson, H. Noel McGough, Maurizio Sajeva, Uwe Schippmann, and Maurice Tse-Laurence. CITES and Cycads: a user’s guide. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Kew Publishing.
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