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|accepted_name=Zamiaceae
|accepted_authority=Horianow
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|common_names=Sago-palm Family
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|hierarchy=Zamiaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Zamiaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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|treatment_page=page 347
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>superficially palmlike or fernlike, perennial, evergreen, dioecious. <b>Stems</b> subterranean with exposed apex or aboveground, fleshy, stout, cylindric, simple or irregularly branched. <b>Roots</b> with small secondary roots; coral-like roots developing at base of stem at or below soil surface. <b>Leaves</b> pinnately compound, spirally clustered at stem apex, leathery, petiole and rachis unarmed [with stout spines]; leaflets entire or dentate [spinose], venation dichotomous [netted]; resin canals absent. <b>Cones</b> axillary, appearing terminal, short-peduncled [sessile], disintegrating at maturity; sporophylls densely crowded, spirally arranged, often covered with indument. <b>Pollen</b> cones soon shed, generally smaller and more numerous than seed cones; sporophylls bearing many crowded, small microsporangia (pollen sacs) adaxially; pollen spheric, not winged. <b>Seed</b> cones persistent for a year or more, 1(–2) per plant, nearly globose to ovoid, tapering sharply or blunt at apex; sporophylls peltate, thickened and laterally expanded distally, bearing 2(–3) ovules. <b>Seeds</b> angular, inner coat hardened, outer coat fleshy, often brightly colored; cotyledons 2.</span><!--

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|distribution=Primarily tropical to warm temperate regions;North Americ;Central America;South America;Africa;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Genera 9, species ca. 100 (1 genus, 1 species in the flora).</p>
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|id=candolle1868a
|text=Candolle, A. L. P. de. 1868. Cycadaceae. In: A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. de Candolle, eds. 1823--1873. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.... Paris etc. Vol. 16, part 2, pp. 522--547.
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|id=johnson1959a
|text=Johnson, L. A. S. 1959. The families of cycads and the Zamiaceae of Australia. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 84: 64--117.
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|id=schuster1932a
|text=Schuster, J. 1932. Cycadaceae. In: H. G. A. Engler, ed. 1900--1953. Das Pflanzenreich.... Berlin. Vol. 99[IV,1], pp. l--168.
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name=Zamiaceae
|author=Garrie P. Landry
|authority=Horianow
|rank=family
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|synonyms=
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|family=Zamiaceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Primarily tropical to warm temperate regions;North Americ;Central America;South America;Africa;Australia.
|reference=candolle1868a;johnson1959a;schuster1932a
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