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| The Cycad Pages
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- Zamia integrifolia L. f., in Aiton, Hortus Kew. 3: 477-479 (1789).
- TYPE: cult. Kew ex Florida, Aiton s.n. (holo K).
Zamia dentata Voigt, Syll. Ratisb. 2: 53 (1828).
- TYPE:
Zamia erosa Cook & Collins, Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 8: 267 (1903).
- TYPE: Puerto Rico, Ponce,Coama Springs, Cook s.n. (lecto NY, iso NY, fide Eckenwalder 1980).
 [NY][ NY]
Zamia floridana A. DC., Prodr. 16(2): 544 (1868).
- Zamia angustifolia var. floridana (A. DC.) Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Petersburgsk. Bot. Sada 4(4): 315 (1876).
- TYPE: E. Florida, Fort Brooke, Hulse s.n. (lecto G-DC, iso NY, fide Eckenwalder 1980).
Zamia floridana var. purshiana J. Schust., in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4(1): 151 (1932).
- TYPE: Biscayne Bay, A.H. Curtiss 2776 (holo NY)
Zamia heyderi Lauche, Gart. Zeit: 457 f.134-135 (1884).
- TYPE: the figures f. 134-135.
Zamia lucayana Britton, Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 5: 311 (1907).
- TYPE: Bahamas, Long Island, Clarence Town and vicinity, Britton & Millspaugh 6271 (hol NY, iso F, GH, NY). [NY][NY]
Zamia media Jacq., Hort. Schoenb. 3: 77, tt. 397, 398 (1798). t. 398
- TYPE: the illustration: t. 398 (lecto fide Eckenwalder 1980).
Zamia media var. commeniliana J. Schust., in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4(1): 155 (1932).
- TYPE: ? Cuba, Wright 1463, 1859, K ??
Zamia media var. jacquiniana J. Schust., in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4(1): 157 (1932).
- TYPE: ?
Zamia media var. jacquiniana f. brevipinnata J. Schust., in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4(1): 158 (1932).
- TYPE: Cuba, Oriente, Holguin to Myabe, Shafer 1406 (lecto B, iso F, NY, fide Eckenwalder 1980). [NY]
Zamia media var. gutierrezii f. calcicola Britton ex J. Schust., in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4(1): 155 (1932).
- TYPE: Cuba, Pinar del Rio, Banos de San Vicente, Britton, Britton & Gager 7392 (holo B, iso GH, NY). [NY][NY]
Zamia silvicola Small, Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 17: 128 (1926).
- Zamia floridana var. purshiana f. silvicola (Small) J. Schust., in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4(1): 152 (1932).
- TYPE: Florida, Citrus, Spanish Mound, near Crystal River, Small, Small & DeWinkeler 10060 (holo NY). [NY]
Zamia tenuis Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 4(2): 846. (1806).
- Zamia media var. tenuis (Willd.) J. Schust., in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4(1): 158 (1932).
- TYPE: Bahamas (holo B-W 18533). [NY]
Zamia umbrosa Small, Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 22: 136, in adnot. (1921).
- TYPE: Florida, Volusia, Daytona Beach, Small 8679 (lecto NY, iso DUKE, FLAS, GH, fide Eckenwalder 1980). [NY]
- [Zamia calcicola Britton ex J. Schust., in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4(1): 155 (1932), nom. nud.]
- [Zamia integrifolia A. Gray ex A. DC., Prodr. 16(2): 544 (1868), nom. nud.]
- [Zamia integrifolia sensu Rich., Comm. Bot. Conif. Cycad.: 191, t. 27 (1826), nom. nud.]
- [Zamia subcoriacea Wendl. ex J. Schust., in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4(1): 155 (1932), nom. nud.]
Etymology:
Zamia integrifolia is actually a double misnomer because
'integrifolia' literally means entire leaves but was intended to
refer to the leaflets which are not entire but have small callous
teeth in the upper fourth.
Historical notes:
Zamia integrifolia is more commonly labeled as Z. floridana
in the older literature particularly that concerning anatomy,
morphology and life cycles. This is mainly because the plants that
were studied came from Florida.
Distinguishing features:
Leaflets with very small obscure callous bumps near the tips and
unusually large seed cones for the stature of the plant.
Distribution and habitat:
Zamia integrifolia is known from extreme southeastern Georgia
southward through peninsular Florida (including the Florida Keys)
and sporadically in the Bahamas where it occurs on Andros, Grand Bahama,
Great Abaco, Long, and New Providence Islands. It has been collected
in western Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and south-central Puerto Rico
where it may now be extinct. Habitats vary from open coastal areas
and sand dunes to pinelands and closed canopy oak hammocks to tropical
forest. This cycad is most commonly found in soil over limestone and
in sand near sea level or in pinelands subjected to periodic wildfires.
Conservation status:
Zamia integrifolia is fairly common throughout its range
except in south-central Puerto Rico where it is extinct as a result
of over development early in the twentieth century. Not listed in the
1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants
because it is not considered threatened.
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Description:
Stems subterranean and tuberous, 3-10 [25] cm in diameter,
often dichotomously branched, wrinkled.
Cataphylls from 1-2 cm long, sheathing at first, with a pair
of inconspicuous stipules.
Leaves 2-15; petioles with stipules, smooth; rachis smooth,
bearing 5-30 pairs of leaflets.
Leaflets oblong, rounded apically, with 10-15 indistinct
teeth in upper fourth, median ones 8-25 cm long and 0.5-2 cm wide.
Pollen cones 1-30, pedunculate, dark reddish brown,
cylindrical to ovoid-cylindrical, apex acute, 3-15 cm long and
0.8-2 cm in diameter.
Seed cones 1-5, pedunculate, dark reddish brown sometimes
becoming gray when mature, cylindrical to slightly ovoid with blunt
or slightly acute apex, 6-15 cm long and 4-6 cm in diam.
Seeds with a red to orange-red, ovoid, 1-2 cm long.
2n = 16
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