Zamia pseudoparasitica

Zamia pseudoparasitica is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests on the Atlantic side of the isthmus. It is threatened by habitat loss.[3][4][5][6]

Zamia pseudoparasitica

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Cycadophyta
Class: Cycadopsida
Order: Cycadales
Family: Zamiaceae
Genus: Zamia
Species:
Z. pseudoparasitica
Binomial name
Zamia pseudoparasitica
J.Yates
Synonyms[2]
  • Palmifolium pseudoparasiticum (J.Yates) Kuntze
  • Zamia ortgiesii A.Braun ex J.Schust.
  • Zamia pseudoparasitica var. latifolia J.Schust.

Zamia pseudoparasitica is the only known species of Zamia that is epiphytic, growing on the branches of forest trees. It has a very short trunk but long leaves over 3 m long. Seeds are orange, disseminated by bats. Some attempts have been made to bring the plant into cultivation as a plant to be grown in a hanging basket, with some degree of success.[7][8][9][10]

References
  1. Donaldson, J.S. 2003. Zamia pseudoparasitica.
  2. The Plant List
  3. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 24 August 2007.
  4. Schuster, Julius. 1932. Das Pflanzenreich (Engler) [Heft 99] 4, Fam. 1: 142, as Zamia pseudoparasitica var. latifolia
  5. Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
  6. Stevenson, D. W. 1993. The Zamiaceae in Panama with comments on phytogeography and species relationships. Brittonia 45(1): 1–16.
  7. Clayton York, Utopia Palms & Cycads, Palm & Cycad Society of Australia, Zamia pseudoparasitica
  8. Seemann, Berthold Carl. 1854. Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. ~Herald~ 2: 202, 253, Zamia pseudoparasitica
  9. Kuntze, Carl Ernst Otto. 1891. Revisio Generum Plantarum: vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomeclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum ... Leipzig 2: 803, as Palmifolium pseudoparasiticum
  10. Stevenson, D. W., R. Osborne & J. Hendricks. 1990. A world list of cycads. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 57: 200–206.


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