Description:
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Genus of about 30 species. Most have short, swollen stems, some similar to palms, others, with tuberous, underground stems, resemble ferns. Zamias are grown for their habits and pinnate leaves, borne in terminal whorls or rosettes and often composed of many narrow, oblong or linear to ovate leaflets. They produce usually felted, single-sexed, cone like flower spikes with male and female flowers borne on separate plants; the insignificant male cones are cylindrical, the females ovoid. |
