Contemporary Circumscription Compared with A Utah Flora 4th ed.
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Zamiaceae
Not in A Utah Flora; this family is not found natively in Utah.
Key Features
Zamiaceae have with a single unbranching stem that may be mostly underground in some species or quite tall. Leaves are large and pinnately compound and may have circinate vernation like ferns. Reproduction is dioecious, with both microsporophylls and megasporophylls (ovuliferous scales) aggregated into cones.
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Zamia integrifolia - young leaves with circinate vernation, and a male cone on the ground in lower left. Florida.
Zamia integrifolia - leaflets showing the several (7–23) co-equal veins running the length of each leaflet
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Dioon edule - China
Dioon edule - Female cones
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