Botanical Family · Cycadales

Cycadaceae

Cycad Family

7 speciesOrder Cycadales4+ well-known plants

The Cycadaceae family (Cycad Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Cycadales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 7 species. Its members are predominantly trees. Several members are valued in traditional medicine. Familiar examples include Beddome’s Cycas, Cycas Tree and Fern Palm Cycad.

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Representative specimen · Cycadaceae

Key pattern

Stout, unbranched, palm-like trunks topped by a crown of stiff, leathery pinnate fronds; reproduction is entirely by cones on separate male and female plants rather than by flowers, with female cones sometimes bearing large, exposed, brightly coloured seeds.

Despite the palm-like appearance, cycads are gymnosperms, more closely related to conifers than to true palms — one of the most ancient living seed-plant lineages, essentially unchanged since the age of dinosaurs.

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Notable members

Beddome’S CycasCycas beddomeiCycas Tree, Crozier CycasCycas circinalisFern Palm Cycad, China Fern Palm, Sago PalmCycas revolutaQueen SagoCycas rumphii

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