List of cycad species by country
Below is a list of cycad species by ordered by country.
Africa[edit]
Southern Africa[edit]
South Africa[edit]
- Encephalartos aemulans
- Encephalartos altensteinii
- Encephalartos arenarius
- Encephalartos brevifoliolatus
- Encephalartos caffer
- Encephalartos cerinus
- Encephalartos cupidus
- Encephalartos cycadifolius
- Encephalartos dolomiticus
- Encephalartos dyerianus
- Encephalartos eugene-maraisii
- Encephalartos ferox
- Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi
- Encephalartos ghellinckii
- Encephalartos heenanii
- Encephalartos hirsutus
- Encephalartos horridus
- Encephalartos humilis
- Encephalartos inopinus
- Encephalartos laevifolius
- Encephalartos lanatus
- Encephalartos latifrons
- Encephalartos lebomboensis
- Encephalartos lehmannii
- Encephalartos longifolius
- Encephalartos middelburgensis
- Encephalartos msinganus
- Encephalartos natalensis
- Encephalartos ngoyanus
- Encephalartos nubimontanus
- Encephalartos paucidentatus
- Encephalartos princeps
- Encephalartos senticosus
- Encephalartos transvenosus
- Encephalartos trispinosus
- Encephalartos villosus
- Encephalartos woodii
- Stangeria eriopus
Eswatini[edit]
- Encephalartos aplanatus
- Encephalartos heenanii
- Encephalartos laevifolius
- Encephalartos lebomboensis
- Encephalartos ngoyanus
- Encephalartos paucidentatus
- Encephalartos relictus
- Encephalartos senticosus
- Encephalartos umbeluziensis
- Encephalartos villosus
Mozambique[edit]
- Cycas thouarsii
- Encephalartos chimanimaniensis
- Encephalartos ferox
- Encephalartos gratus
- Encephalartos lebomboensis
- Encephalartos manikensis
- Encephalartos munchii
- Encephalartos pterogonus
- Encephalartos turneri
- Encephalartos umbeluziensis
Malawi[edit]
Zimbabwe[edit]
Zambia[edit]
Angola[edit]
Democratic Republic of the Congo[edit]
- Encephalartos laurentianus
- Encephalartos ituriensis
- Encephalartos marunguensis
- Encephalartos poggei
- Encephalartos schaijesii
- Encephalartos schmitzii
East Africa[edit]
Cycas thouarsii is the most geographically widespread species, and is found in Indian Ocean islands as well.
Tanzania[edit]
- Cycas thouarsii
- Encephalartos bubalinus
- Encephalartos delucanus
- Encephalartos hildebrandtii
- Encephalartos sclavoi
Kenya[edit]
- Cycas thouarsii
- Encephalartos bubalinus
- Encephalartos hildebrandtii
- Encephalartos kisambo
- Encephalartos tegulaneus
- Encephalartos tegulaneus subsp. powysii
Uganda[edit]
- Encephalartos equatorialis
- Encephalartos macrostrobilus
- Encephalartos septentrionalis
- Encephalartos whitelockii
South Sudan[edit]
Madagascar[edit]
Comoros[edit]
Seychelles[edit]
West Africa[edit]
Encephalartos barteri is the only cycad species recorded in West Africa.
Nigeria[edit]
- Encephalartos barteri
- Encephalartos barteri subsp. allochrous
Benin[edit]
Togo[edit]
Ghana[edit]
South Asia[edit]
Cycas pectinata has the most widespread distribution in South Asia, and is the only South Asian cycad species found outside India and Sri Lanka.
India[edit]
- Cycas andamanica
- Cycas annaikalensis
- Cycas beddomei
- Cycas circinalis
- Cycas indica
- Cycas nathorstii
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas sphaerica
- Cycas zeylanica
- Cycas orixensis
Sri Lanka[edit]
Bangladesh[edit]
Bhutan[edit]
Nepal[edit]
East Asia[edit]
Japan[edit]
China[edit]
- Cycas balansae
- Cycas bifida
- Cycas changjiangensis
- Cycas chenii
- Cycas debaoensis
- Cycas diannanensis
- Cycas dolichophylla
- Cycas ferruginea
- Cycas guizhouensis
- Cycas hainanensis
- Cycas hongheensis
- Cycas multipinnata
- Cycas panzhihuaensis
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas revoluta
- Cycas segmentifida
- Cycas sexseminifera
- Cycas shanyaensis
- Cycas szechuanensis
- Cycas szechuanensis subsp. fairylakea
- Cycas taiwaniana
- Cycas tanqingii
Taiwan[edit]
Southeast Asia[edit]
Vietnam[edit]
- Cycas aculeata
- Cycas balansae
- Cycas bifida
- Cycas brachycantha
- Cycas chevalieri
- Cycas clivicola
- Cycas collina
- Cycas condaoensis
- Cycas diannanensis
- Cycas dolichophylla
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas elongata
- Cycas ferruginea
- Cycas fugax
- Cycas hoabinhensis
- Cycas inermis
- Cycas lindstromii
- Cycas micholitzii
- Cycas multipinnata
- Cycas pachypoda
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas segmentifida
- Cycas sexseminifera
- Cycas siamensis
- Cycas simplicipinna
- ?Cycas tanqingii
- Cycas tropophylla
Laos[edit]
Thailand[edit]
- Cycas chamaoensis
- Cycas clivicola
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas elephantipes
- Cycas macrocarpa
- Cycas nongnoochiae
- Cycas pectinata
- Cycas petraea
- Cycas pranburiensis
- Cycas siamensis
- Cycas simplicipinna
- Cycas tansachana
Cambodia[edit]
Myanmar[edit]
Malaysia[edit]
Singapore[edit]
Philippines[edit]
- Cycas aenigma
- Cycas curranii
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas lacrimans
- Cycas nitida
- Cycas riuminiana
- Cycas sancti-lasallei
- Cycas saxatilis
- Cycas vespertilio
- Cycas wadei
- Cycas zambalensis
Indonesia[edit]
- Cycas apoa
- Cycas edentata
- Cycas falcata
- Cycas glauca
- Cycas javana
- Cycas montana
- Cycas papuana
- Cycas rumphii
- Cycas scratchleyana
- Cycas sundaica
East Timor[edit]
Oceania[edit]
The eastern coast of Australia contains the most diversity. Cycas seemannii is found in Melanesia and western Polynesia. Cycas micronesica is found in Micronesia.
Australia[edit]
- Bowenia serrulata
- Bowenia spectabilis
- Cycas angulata
- Cycas arenicola
- Cycas armstrongii
- Cycas arnhemica
- Cycas arnhemica subsp. muninga
- Cycas arnhemica subsp. natja
- Cycas badensis
- Cycas basaltica
- Cycas brunnea
- Cycas cairnsiana
- Cycas calcicola
- Cycas canalis
- Cycas candida
- Cycas conferta
- Cycas couttsiana
- Cycas cupida
- Cycas desolata
- Cycas furfuracea
- Cycas lane-poolei
- Cycas maconochiei
- Cycas maconochiei subsp. lanata
- Cycas maconochiei subsp. viridis
- Cycas media
- Cycas media subsp. ensata
- Cycas media subsp. banksii
- Cycas megacarpa
- Cycas ophiolitica
- Cycas orientis
- Cycas platyphylla
- Cycas pruinosa
- Cycas rumphii
- Cycas seemannii
- Cycas semota
- Cycas silvestris
- Cycas tuckeri
- Cycas xipholepis
- Cycas yorkiana
- Lepidozamia hopei
- Lepidozamia peroffskyana
- Macrozamia cardiacensis
- Macrozamia communis
- Macrozamia concinna
- Macrozamia conferta
- Macrozamia cranei
- Macrozamia crassifolia
- Macrozamia diplomera
- Macrozamia douglasii
- Macrozamia dyeri
- Macrozamia elegans
- Macrozamia fawcettii
- Macrozamia fearnsidei
- Macrozamia flexuosa
- Macrozamia fraseri
- Macrozamia glaucophylla
- Macrozamia heteromera
- Macrozamia humilis
- Macrozamia johnsonii
- Macrozamia lomandroides
- Macrozamia longispina
- Macrozamia lucida
- Macrozamia macdonnellii
- Macrozamia machinii
- Macrozamia macleayi
- Macrozamia miquelii
- Macrozamia montana
- Macrozamia moorei
- Macrozamia mountperriensis
- Macrozamia occidua
- Macrozamia parcifolia
- Macrozamia pauli-guilielmi
- Macrozamia platyrhachis
- Macrozamia plurinervia
- Macrozamia polymorpha
- Macrozamia reducta
- Macrozamia riedlei
- Macrozamia secunda
- Macrozamia serpentina
- Macrozamia spiralis
- Macrozamia stenomera
- Macrozamia viridis
Papua New Guinea[edit]
- Cycas apoa
- Cycas bougainvilleana
- Cycas campestris
- Cycas papuana
- Cycas rumphii
- Cycas schumanniana
- Cycas scratchleyana
Solomon Islands[edit]
New Caledonia[edit]
Vanuatu[edit]
Fiji[edit]
Tonga[edit]
Palau[edit]
Micronesia[edit]
Guam[edit]
Northern Mariana Islands[edit]
North America and Caribbean[edit]
United States[edit]
Bahamas[edit]
Cayman Islands[edit]
Cuba[edit]
- Zamia angustifolia
- Zamia erosa
- Zamia integrifolia
- Zamia pumila
- Zamia pygmaea
- Zamia stricta
- Microcycas calocoma
Dominican Republic[edit]
Puerto Rico[edit]
Jamaica[edit]
Central America[edit]
Mexico[edit]
- Ceratozamia alvarezii
- Ceratozamia becerrae
- Ceratozamia brevifrons
- Ceratozamia chimalapensis
- Ceratozamia decumbens
- Ceratozamia euryphyllidia
- Ceratozamia fuscoviridis
- Ceratozamia hildae
- Ceratozamia huastecorum
- Ceratozamia kuesteriana
- Ceratozamia latifolia
- Ceratozamia matudae
- Ceratozamia mexicana
- Ceratozamia microstrobila
- Ceratozamia miqueliana
- Ceratozamia mirandae
- Ceratozamia mixeorum
- Ceratozamia morettii
- Ceratozamia norstogii
- Ceratozamia robusta
- Ceratozamia sabatoi
- Ceratozamia santillanii
- Ceratozamia vovidesii
- Ceratozamia whitelockiana
- Ceratozamia zaragozae
- Ceratozamia zoquorum
- Dioon angustifolium
- Dioon argenteum
- Dioon califanoi
- Dioon caputoi
- Dioon edule
- Dioon holmgrenii
- Dioon merolae
- Dioon purpusii
- Dioon rzedowskii
- Dioon sonorense
- Dioon spinulosum
- Dioon stevensonii
- Dioon tomasellii
- Zamia cremnophila
- Zamia fischeri
- Zamia furfuracea
- Zamia grijalvensis
- Zamia herrerae
- Zamia inermis
- Zamia katzeriana
- Zamia lacandona
- Zamia loddigesii
- Zamia paucijuga
- Zamia prasina
- Zamia purpurea
- Zamia soconuscensis
- Zamia spartea
- Zamia variegata
- Zamia vazquezii
Belize[edit]
Guatemala[edit]
- Ceratozamia matudae
- Ceratozamia robusta
- Zamia herrerae
- Zamia monticola
- Zamia prasina
- Zamia standleyi
- Zamia tuerckheimii
- Zamia variegata
El Salvador[edit]
Honduras[edit]
- Ceratozamia hondurensis
- Dioon mejiae
- Zamia onan-reyesii
- Zamia oreillyi
- Zamia sandovalii
- Zamia standleyi
Nicaragua[edit]
Costa Rica[edit]
Panama[edit]
- Zamia cunaria
- Zamia dressleri
- Zamia elegantissima
- Zamia fairchildiana
- Zamia hamannii
- Zamia imperialis
- Zamia ipetiensis
- Zamia lindleyi
- Zamia manicata
- Zamia nana
- Zamia nesophila
- Zamia neurophyllidia
- Zamia obliqua
- Zamia pseudomonticola
- Zamia pseudoparasitica
- Zamia skinneri
- Zamia stevensonii
South America[edit]
Colombia[edit]
- Zamia amazonum
- Zamia amplifolia
- Zamia chigua
- Zamia disodon
- Zamia encephalartoides
- Zamia huilensis
- Zamia hymenophyllidia
- Zamia incognita
- Zamia lecointei
- Zamia manicata
- Zamia melanorrhachis
- Zamia montana
- Zamia muricata
- Zamia obliqua
- Zamia pyrophylla
- Zamia restrepoi
- Zamia roezlii
- Zamia tolimensis
- Zamia ulei
- Zamia wallisii
Ecuador[edit]
Peru[edit]
- Zamia amazonum
- Zamia hymenophyllidia
- Zamia lecointei
- Zamia lindenii
- Zamia macrochiera
- Zamia poeppigiana
- Zamia ulei
- Zamia urep
Bolivia[edit]
Venezuela[edit]
Brazil[edit]
References[edit]
- Catherine Rutherford, John Donaldson, Alex Hudson, H. Noel McGough, Maurizio Sajeva, Uwe Schippmann, and Maurice Tse-Laurence. CITES and Cycads: a user’s guide. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Kew Publishing.