Etymology:
In reference to the occurrence in the Mount Perry district.
Historical notes: Distinguishing features: A member of the M. miquelii complex, recognisable by its small stature, light green leaves with none of the lowermost leaflets reduced to spines, and the small size of the male and female cones and the seeds. It differs from the very close M. longispina in its somewhat more robust habit with longer leaves, more leaflets that are broader, and slightly larger male and female cones with smaller spines on the sporophylls. Distribution and habitat: Queensland, known from several stands around Mt Perry, ranging from grassy eucalypt forests or woodlands to Araucarian rainforest. Conservation status: Not considered to be at risk (IUCN Red List category LR,lc).
Description:
Plants acaulescent, stem 25-40 cm diam. Leaves 35-80 in crown, bright green to deep green, highly glossy, 90-150 cm long, flat (not keeled) in section, with 50-110 leaflets; rachis not spirally twisted, straight, stiff; petiole 30-75 cm long, straight, unarmed, 5-7 mm wide at lowest leaflets; basal leaflets not reducing to spines. Leaflets simple, strongly discolorous; margins flat; apex entire, spinescent; median leaflets 240-350 mm long, 5-9 mm wide. Pollen cones fusiform, 17-23 cm long, 3.5-4 cm diam.; microsporophyll lamina 13 mm long, 11 mm wide; apical spine 0-15 mm long. Seed cones narrowly ovoid, 18-23 cm long, 7-9 cm diam.; megasporophyll lamina 35 mm long, stipe 22 mm long, megasporophyll with an expanded peltate apex 35-40 mm wide, 15-20 mm high; apical spine 6-35 mm long. Seeds oblong, 25 mm long, 16 mm wide; sarcotesta orange, or yellow.
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