Macrozamia

burrawang
Macrozamia communis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Cycadophyta
Class:	Cycadopsida
Order:	Cycadales
Family:	Zamiaceae
Genus:	Macrozamia Miq.

Macrozamia is a genus of 38-40 species of cycads, in the family Zamiaceae, all endemic to Australia. The majority of the species occur in eastern Australia in southeast Queensland and New South Wales, with one species in the Macdonnell Ranges of Northern Territory and three in southern Western Australia.^[1][2] The common name burrawang, originally referring to M. communis in the Daruk Australian Aboriginal language, is often used for all the species in the genus.

Macrozamia fraseri cone

MacDonnell Ranges cycad (Macrozamia macdonnellii) in Cycad Gorge, Finke Gorge National Park, NT

Species

1. Macrozamia cardiacensis - southeast Queensland
2. Macrozamia communis - east coast of New South Wales
3. Macrozamia concinna - New South Wales
4. Macrozamia conferta - southeast Queensland
5. Macrozamia cranei - southeast Queensland
6. Macrozamia crassifolia - southeast Queensland
7. Macrozamia denisoni - southeast Queensland
8. Macrozamia diplomera - New South Wales
9. Macrozamia douglasii - southeast Queensland
10. Macrozamia dyeri - southern coast of Western Australia
11. Macrozamia elegans - New South Wales
12. Macrozamia fawcettii - New South Wales
13. Macrozamia fearnsidei - southeast Queensland
14. Macrozamia flexuosa - New South Wales
15. Macrozamia fraseri - southwestern Western Australia
16. Macrozamia glaucophylla - New South Wales
17. Macrozamia heteromera - New South Wales
18. Macrozamia humilis - New South Wales
19. Macrozamia johnsonii - New South Wales
20. Macrozamia lomandroides - southeast Queensland
21. Macrozamia longispina - southeast Queensland
22. Macrozamia lucida - southeast Queensland
23. Macrozamia macdonnellii - Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory
24. Macrozamia macleayi - Queensland
25. Macrozamia miquelii - southeast and central Queensland
26. Macrozamia montana - New South Wales
27. Macrozamia moorei - southeast and central Queensland
28. Macrozamia mountperriensis - southeast Queensland
29. Macrozamia occidua - southeast Queensland
30. Macrozamia parcifolia - southeast Queensland
31. Macrozamia pauli-guilielmi - southeast Queensland, northeast New South Wales
32. Macrozamia platyrachis - southeast Queensland
33. Macrozamia plurinervia - southeast Queensland, northeast New South Wales
34. Macrozamia polymorpha - New South Wales
35. Macrozamia reducta - New South Wales
36. Macrozamia riedlei - southwestern Western Australia
37. Macrozamia secunda - New South Wales
38. Macrozamia serpentina - southeast Queensland
39. Macrozamia spiralis - New South Wales
40. Macrozamia stenomera - New South Wales
41. Macrozamia viridis - southeast Queensland

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Orchard, A.E. & McCarthy, P.M. (eds.) (1998). Flora of Australia 48: 1-766. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

External links

• The Cycad Pages: Macrozamia
• About Macrozamia communis
• Primitive plants have hot, stinky sex, Reuters (Oct 4, 2007)