Encephalartos septentrionalis Schweinf. [WFO] [IPNI] [POWO] [MO]

First published in: Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 29(20): 334. (1871). [BHL]

Etymology: From the Latin septentrionalis (‘north’ or ‘northern’), meant to “establish an important phytogeographic fact,” in reference to the author’s contemporaries not having collected anything similar to it in eastern, western, or southern Africa (Schweinfurth 1871). [source]

Distribution: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo (Orientale), South Sudan (Western Equatoria), Uganda (Northern)

IUCN Red List Conservation Status: Near Threatened

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