Wood's cycad

Encephalartos woodii

Summary 2

Encephalartos woodii, Wood's cycad, is a rare cycad in the genus Encephalartos, and is endemic to the oNgoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is one of the rarest plants in the world, being extinct in the wild with all specimens being clones of the type. The specific and common name both honour John Medley Wood, curator of the Durban Botanic Garden and director of the Natal Government Herbarium of South Africa, who discovered the plant...

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  1. (c) Kerry Woods, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/93854456@N03/9733432435/
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalartos_woodii

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