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Article: The world list of cycads.
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- The Botanical Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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I. Abstract
II. Introduction
III. The World List
IV. Literature Cited
V. Appendix I: Useful Cycad References
II. Introduction
The first "World List of Cycads" was published in Encephalartos (Journal of the Cycad Society of South Africa) by Osborne and Hendricks (1985), with minor amendments in a supplementary list in a subsequent issue of the same journal (Osborne & Hendricks, 1986). Several updates have followed as changes in taxonomy and in outlook, especially in the genera Cycas, Encephalartos, Macrozamia, and Zamia, made the previous lists obsolete, these being presented at the various International Conferences on Cycad Biology (Stevenson et ...