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Cycas circinalis L. [WFO] [IPNI] [POWO] [MO]

First published in: Sp. Pl. [Linnaeus] 2: 1188. (1753). [BHL]

Etymology: From the Latin circinalis (‘coiled inward’), referring to the circinate leaflet development. [source]

Nomenclatural Type Information
Type Location(s): LT:t. 19, in Rheede, Hort. Malab, 3 (1682)

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Distribution: India (Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu)

IUCN Red List Conservation Status: Endangered A2acd

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India (Andhra Pradesh)

Reference Links (19)

Calculated Reference Reference Links Journal Comment(s)
1840
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Commentarii Phytographici, quibus varia rei Herbariae Capita Illustrantur
1994
Hill KD. 1994. The Cycas rumphii complex (Cycadaceae) in New Guinea and the western Pacific. Austral. Syst. Bot. 7 (6) : 543-567.
Australian Systematic Botany
Description
1789
Aiton W. 1789. Palmae. Hort. Kew. [W. Aiton] 3 : 473-479.
Hortus Kewensis; or, a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. London
2012
Varghese A, Krishnamurthy V, Ticktin T. 2012. Harvest, use, and ecology of Cycas circinalis L.— A case study in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve area, Western Ghats, India. p. 178-191.
Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden
1832
Roxburgh W. 1832. Cycas. p. 744-749.
Flora Indica; or, Descriptions of Indian Plants. By the Late William Roxburgh. Serampore
1998
de Laubenfels DJ, Adema F. 1998. A taxonomic revision of the genera Cycas and Epicycas gen. nov. (Cycadaceae). Blumea 43 (2): 351-400.
Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants
Description
1868
Miquel FA. 1868. Noveaux matériaux pour servir á la connaissance des Cycadées. Premiere partie. Organes sexuels. Cycas.. Arch. Néerl. Sci. Exact. Nat. 3 : 193-241.
Archives Neerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles
1842
Miquel FA. 1842. Monographia Cycadearum. Monogr. Cycad. : 1-82.
Monographia Cycadearum. Trajecti ad Rhenum
Description
2006
Singh R, Radha P. 2006. A new species of Cycas from the Malabar Coast, Western Ghats, India. Brittonia 58 (2): 119-123.
Brittonia
1900
Warburg, O, editors. Cycadaceae. Monsunia 1900;1(Pt 1):178-181..
Monsunia, Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Vegetation des Süd- und Ostasiatischen Monsungebietes