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Dioon edule Lindl. [IPNI] [POWO] [MO]

First published in: Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 29: misc. 59-60. (1843). [BHL]

Etymology: From the Latin edulis (‘edible’), referring to the use of the seeds as food in its native Mexico. [source]

Nomenclatural Type Information
Collector and Number: J. Lindley s.n.
Locality: Cultivated in garden of Royal Horticultural Society, from Mexico
Type Location(s): HT:CGE

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Distribution: Mexico (Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz)

IUCN Red List Conservation Status: Near Threatened A2cd

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Mexico (San Luis Potosí)

Mexico (San Luis Potosí)

Mexico (Veracruz)

Mexico (Veracruz)

Mexico (Veracruz)

Reference Links (19)

Calculated Reference Reference Links Journal Comment(s)
1851
Miquel FA. 1851. Cycadeae quaedam Americanae: Partim novae. Nieuwe Verh. Eerste Kl. Kon. Ned. Inst. Wetensch. Amsterdam 3 (4) : 181-188.
Nieuwe Verhandelingen van de Eerste Klasse van het Koninklijke Nederlandsche Instituut van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam
1868
Miquel FA. 1868. Noveaux matériaux pour servir á la connaissance des Cycadées. Cinquiéme partie, Cycadées de L'Amérique. Arch. Néerl. Sci. Exact. Nat. 3 : 417-427.
Archives Neerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles
1884
Thiselton-Dyer WT. 1884. Cycadaceae. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3 : 190-195.
Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America edited by F. Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin. Botany.
1982
De Luca P, Sabato S, Vázquez-Torres M. 1982. Distribution and variation of Dioon [Dion] edule. Brittonia 34 (3): 355-362.
Brittonia
1847
Miquel FA. 1847. Over eenige nieuwe of zeldzame Cycadeen in den Hortus Botanicus te Amsterdam. Eerste gedeltee. Tijdschr. Wis- Natuurk. Wetensch. Eerste Kl. Kon. Ned. Inst. Wetensch. 1 (1) : 33-43.
Tijdschrift voor de Wisen Natuurkundige Wetenschappen,...
1979
De Luca P, Sabato S. 1979. Dioon califanoi (Zamiaceae), a new species from Mexico. Brittonia 31 (1): 170-173.
Brittonia
1899
Wittmack L. 1899. Dioon edule und Dioon edule var. lanuginosum Wittmck.. Gartenflora 48 : 153.
Gartenflora
2007
González-Astorga J, Vovides AP. 2007. Genetic structure and diversity of Dioon edule: a comparison with other cycads. In: Vovides AP, Stevenson DW, Osborne R, editors. Proceedings of Cycad 2005: The 7th Intl Conference on Cycad Biology. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 97. New York: NYBG Press. p. 400-417.
Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden
1982
Webb DT. 1982. Developmental anatomy and histochemistry of light-induced callus formation by Dioon edule (Zamiaceae) seedling roots in vitro. Amer. J. Bot. 71 (1) : 65-68.
American Journal of Botany
1986
Stevenson DW, Sabato S. 1986. Typification of names in Ceratozamia brongn, Dion lindl, and Microcycas A. DC. (Zamiaceae). Taxon 35 (3): 578-584.
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