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

Ethnobotany

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

Observations

Based on distribution, this is almost certainly the species that I encountered in Eucalypt sclerophyll forests around Eungella National Park and Airlie Beach in Queensland.

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