Encephalartos sclavoi
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| Encephalartos sclavoi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Cycadophyta |
| Class: | Cycadopsida |
| Order: | Cycadales |
| Family: | Zamiaceae |
| Genus: | Encephalartos |
| Species: | E. sclavoi |
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| Encephalartos sclavoi De Luca, D.W.Stev. & A.Moretti, 1990 |
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Encephalartos sclavoi is a critically endangered[1] palm-like cycad in the family Zamiaceae, growing to about a metre long. The leaves are 170-200 cm long, dark green and semiglossy. Its seed cones are yellow, being 30-40 cm long and 15-20 cm in diameter. It is found in Tanzania.[2]
It was described in 1990 by Aldo Moretti, D.W. Stevenson and Paolo Deluca, honoring Jean Pierre Sclavo, a french collector of cycads, who first discovered this species.
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