The Gymnosperm Database

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Microsporangiate strobilus. Photo by Dan Skean, posted at Fairchild Tropical Gardens website.

 

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Assessed 2009.10

Cycas media

R. Br.

Common names

Names applied to subsp. banksii: Mara or marra [Yalanji]; badur, bodell, kamamma, kimalo, nijar [unidentified native languages] (Bonta and Osborne 2005).

Taxonomic notes

Description

Distribution and Ecology

Remarkable Specimens

No data as of 2023.03.03.

Ethnobotany

Has been used as food by aborigines in Australia, and its stems were briefly harvested commercially for starch (Jones 1993).

Observations

Remarks

Citations

Bonta, Mark and Roy Osborne. 2005. Cycads in the vernacular, a compendium of local names. http://www.cycad.org/documents/Bonta-Osborne-Cycads-Vernacular.pdf, accessed 2017.12.29.

See also

Last Modified 2023-03-03