Encephalartos sclavoi
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Encephalartos sclavoi is a critically endangered palm
-like cycad
in the family Zamiaceae
, growing to about a metre long. The leaves are 170-200 cm long, dark green and semiglossy. Its seed cones are yellow, being 30-40 cm long and 15-20 cm in diameter. It is found in Tanzania
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It was described in 1990 by Aldo Moretti, D.W. Stevenson and Paolo Deluca, honoring Jean Pierre Sclavo, a french collector of cycads, who first discovered this species.
Arecaceae
Arecaceae or Palmae , are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates...
-like cycad
Cycad
Cycads are seed plants typically characterized by a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves. They usually have pinnate leaves. The individual plants are either all male or all female . Cycads vary in size from having a trunk that is only a few centimeters...
in the family Zamiaceae
Zamiaceae
The Zamiaceae are a family of cycads that are superficially palm or fern-like. They are divided into two subfamilies with eight genera and about 150 species in the tropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, Australia and North and South America....
, growing to about a metre long. The leaves are 170-200 cm long, dark green and semiglossy. Its seed cones are yellow, being 30-40 cm long and 15-20 cm in diameter. It is found in Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
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It was described in 1990 by Aldo Moretti, D.W. Stevenson and Paolo Deluca, honoring Jean Pierre Sclavo, a french collector of cycads, who first discovered this species.