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Bowenia spectabilis

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Bowenia spectabilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Cycadophyta
Class: Cycadopsida
Order: Cycadales
Family: Stangeriaceae
Genus: Bowenia
Species:
B. spectabilis
Binomial name
Bowenia spectabilis
Hook. ex Hook.f.

Bowenia spectabilis is a species of cycad in the family Stangeriaceae. It is endemic to Queensland, Australia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Range

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Bowenia spectabilis is found in northeastern Queensland from the McIlwraith Range on the Cape York Peninsula south to near Tully. It is a rainforest species, growing close to streams and on sheltered slopes in lowland wet sclerophyll forest, but also at an altitude of up to 700 metres in the Atherton Tableland.[2]

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The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia' records that the yam-like rhizome is used for food by the Indigenous Australians.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Hill, K.D. (2010). "Bowenia spectabilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T41980A10591113. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T41980A10591113.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. ^ "The Gymnosperm Database". Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  3. ^ J. H. Maiden (1889). The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania. Turner and Henderson, Sydney.
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