Description

"Encephalartos imbricans... is a large arborescent plant, with leaflets mostly strongly incubously overlapping. The strobili are green and glabrous; the megastrobilus is ovoid, shortly pedunculate, with the surfaces of the bullae wrinkled; the microstrobili emerge in succession, being narrowly ovoid, long-pedunculate, with the surfaces of the bullae smooth" (Vorster and Heibloem 1995).

Range

Uganda (Vorster and Heibloem 1995).

Citations

Vorster, P. and P. Heibloem. 1995. Encephalartos imbricans (Zamiaceae): A new species from Uganda. Novon 5: 388-394.

This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.conifers.org/za/en/imbricans.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
Last modified on 2005.11.27