Zamia acuminata
Zamia acuminata is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae which is threatened by habitat loss. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama.
The holotype of Zamia acuminata is a leaf collected by Anders Sandøe Ørsted in Costa Rica or Nicaragua between 1846 and 1848. It was described by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer in 1884. While the label with the specimen has the note ad flumen S. Juan Nicaragua on it, suggesting that the leaf was collected near the San Juan River in southern Nicaragua, no other specimens of the plant have been found in Nicaragua or adjacent parts of Costa Rica. In 1993, Dennis Stevenson published a description of Z. acuminata based on plants growing wild in Panama.
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Description
Z. acuminata has a subterranean stem that is subglobose (rounded but not spherical) to cylindrical, up to 5 centimetres (2.0 in) in diameter. It has one to three compound leaves that are up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) long. Leaf stalks are up to 60 centimetres (24 in) long, and densely covered with prickles. The leaf axis has 6 to 15 pairs of leaflets, with some prickles in the lower third of the axis. The leaflets are elliptic-lanceolate with very long acuminate (pointed) tips. Leaflets in the middle of the compound leaf are 20 to 30 centimetres (7.9 to 11.8 in) long and 1 to 3 centimetres (0.39 to 1.18 in) wide. Like all Zamia, Z. acuminata is dioecious, with all plants either male or female. Male strobili (cones) are cylindrical, 5 to 8 centimetres (2.0 to 3.1 in) long and 1 to 1.5 centimetres (0.39 to 0.59 in) in diameter, and are cream to tan in color. Female strobili are cylindrical to ovoid, 10 to 20 centimetres (3.9 to 7.9 in) long and 5 to 8 centimetres (2.0 to 3.1 in) in diameter, and are also cream to tan in color. The seeds are ovoid and red.
Range & habitat
Z. acuminata is found between 400 and 1,200 metres (1,300 and 3,900 ft) of altitude in Costa Rica and Panama.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 135525.