Cycadaceae
Cycad Family
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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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.
Which Cycadaceae species is this?
Answer what you can see and narrow it down to a single Cycadaceae species.
To check whether a plant belongs to Cycadaceae, compare the leaf arrangement, leaf type, flower symmetry, fruit type, and one distinctive marker together. A single feature can mislead; the family pattern is the combination.
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Families that can look similar
Zamiaceae
Compare against Zamiaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
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