The Cycad Pages Macrozamia pauli-guilielmi

Macrozamia pauli-guilielmi W. Hill & F. Muell., Fragm. 1: 86 (1859). H—MEL

TYPE: Australia, Queensland, Vicinity of Moreton Bay, W.Hill s.n. (holo ?MEL; iso K).

Macrozamia plumosa Mohr, Rev. Hort. Belge Etrangère 3: 69, fig. 7 (1877).

TYPE: not cited.

Macrozamia spiralis var. cylindracea Benth., Fl. Austral. 6: 252 (1873.).

TYPE: not cited.

[Encephalartos mackenii hort. ex Miq., Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuurk. II 3: 55 (1869), nom. nud.]

[Zamia mackenii hort. ex Miq., Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuurk. 2(3): 55 (1869), nom. nud.]

Historical notes:

Distinguishing features: A member of a complex of species characterised by strongly spirally twisted leaves with narrow, incurved leaflets. Separated within this group by the very narrow, light green leaflets.

Distribution and habitat: Southern Queensland, Burnett, Darling Downs and western Moreton districts. Scattered in open woodland, almost always on siliceous sand deposits from old beach dunes.

Conservation status: Threatened. Gazetted as a Rare or Threatened Plant under Queensland Nature Conservation legislation.

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