Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Zamieae is a member of the Subfamily Yuccoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Zamieae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Cycadopsida
- Order: Cycadales
Dumortier, 1829 - Cycads
- Family: Stangeriaceae
(stan-GER-ee-uh)
L. Johnson, 1959
- Subfamily: Yuccoideae
- Tribe: Zamieae
- Subfamily: Yuccoideae
- Family: Stangeriaceae
(stan-GER-ee-uh)
L. Johnson, 1959
- Order: Cycadales
Dumortier, 1829 - Cycads
- Class: Cycadopsida
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Zamieae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (6): Bowenia · Ceratozamia · Chigua · Microcycas · Stangeria · Zamia
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 239 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Zamieae.
Genera
Bowenia
The genus Bowenia, includes two living and two species of cycads in the family Stangeriaceae, and is entirely restricted to Australia. The two living species occur in Queensland, where they grow in the warm, wet, tropical rainforests, on protected slopes and near streams, primarily in the lowlands. [more]
Ceratozamia
Ceratozamia is a genus of New World cycads in the family Zamiaceae. The genus contains 26 currently living species and one or two fossil species. Most species are endemic to mountainous areas of Mexico, while few species extend into the mountains of Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. [more]
Chigua
Chigua is a genus of cycads in the family Zamiaceae containing two species, endemic to small areas in northwestern Colombia. Described by botanist Dennis Stevenson in 1990, it is the most recently named genus. Both species are listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List. The genus name comes from a Spanish transliteration of the common name given to cycads by the indigenous peoples of Colombia. The species are found in wet lowland rainforests at 100-200 m altitude. [more]
Microcycas
Microcycas is a genus of cycads in the family Zamiaceae containing only one species, Microcycas calocoma, endemic to a small area in western Cuba in Pinar del R?o Province. [more]
Stangeria
Zamia
Zamia is a genus of cycad of the family Zamiaceae, containing around 50 species, native to North, Central and South America. Species occur as far north as Georgia in the United States (Z. integrifolia; the only cycad native to the United States) to as far south as Bolivia (Z. boliviana). [more]
At least 166 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Zamia.
More info about the Genus Zamia may be found here.
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