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|accepted_name=Zamia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|place=2: 659. 1762
|year=1762
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Zamiaceae;Zamia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Zamiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Zamia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Derivation equivocal, perhaps from misreading of Latin azania, a kind of pine cone, or from Latin zamia, loss, from the "sterile appearance" of the pollen cones
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="stem architecture;stem location"><b>Stems </b>often branched, subterranean to aboveground.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf shape"><b>Leaves </b>broadly oblongelliptic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaflet shape or architecture;leaflet architecture or shape;leaflet architecture;leaflet arrangement">leaflets entire to coarsely dentate, without midribs, venation dichotomous but appearing parallel.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="cone architecture"><b>Cones </b>distinctly peduncled.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties=""><b>Pollen </b>cones more slender than seed-cones.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="pollen cone size;x chromosome quantity">x = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Subtropics and tropics;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=duncan1979a
|text=Duncan, W. H. 1979. Zamia (Cycadaceae) new for Georgia. Sida 8: 115--116.
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|id=eckenwalder1980a
|text=Eckenwalder, J. E. 1980. Dispersal of the West Indian cycad Zamia pumila L. Biotropica 12: 79--80.
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|id=eckenwalder1980b
|text=Eckenwalder, J. E. 1980b. Taxonomy of the West Indian cycads. J. Arnold Arbor. 61: 701--722.
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|id=hardin1971a
|text=Hardin, J. W. 1971. Studies of the southeastern United States flora. II. The gymnosperms. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 87: 43--50.
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|id=kral1983a
|text=Kral, R. 1983b. Cycadaceae: Zamia integrifolia Ait. In: R. Kral, ed. 1983. A Report on Some Rare, Threatened, or Endangered Forest-related Vascular Plants of the South. Washington. Pp. 20--23. [U.S.D.A., Techn. Publ. R8-TP 2.]
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|id=landry1980a
|text=Landry, G. P. 1980. The Ecology and Variation of Zamia pumila L. in Florida. M.S. thesis. Louisiana State University.
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|id=stevenson1987a
|text=Stevenson, D. W. 1987b. Comments on character distribution, taxonomy and nomenclature of the genus Zamia L. in the West Indies and Mexico. Encephalartos 9: 3--7.
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|id=stevenson1987b
|text=Stevenson, D. W. 1987. Again the West Indian zamias. Fairchild Trop. Gard. Bull. 42(3): 23--27.
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|id=ward-a
|text=Ward, D. B., ed. N.d. Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida. Vol. 5. Plants. Gainesville. Pp. 122--124.
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name=Zamia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Zamiaceae
|distribution=Subtropics and tropics;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America
|reference=duncan1979a;eckenwalder1980a;eckenwalder1980b;hardin1971a;kral1983a;landry1980a;stevenson1987a;stevenson1987b;ward-a
|publication title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|publication year=1762
|special status=
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|genus=Zamia
|cone architecture=peduncled
|leaf shape=oblongelliptic
|leaflet architecture=dichotomous
|leaflet architecture or shape=dentate
|leaflet arrangement=parallel
|leaflet shape or architecture=entire to coarsely
|pollen cone size=more slender
|stem architecture=branched
|stem location=subterranean;aboveground
|x chromosome quantity=8
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