Cone - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 29137 | |||||
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Plant Name | 218.00 ZAMIACEAE Macrozamia douglasii | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Cone | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Australia | TDWG Region | Australia | ||
| Parts Held | Cone | Geography Description | Fraser's Island | ||
| Uses | ConeUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Hill W | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1881 | Donor Notes | Mueller Baron von Date: 00/00/1883x0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: From Queensland by Baron von Mueller. E.douglasii F.& V., Systematic Census of Australian Plants, I., 110 (1882) Macrozamia douglasii, W.Hill (inedit) Stem not tall; leaf-stalks rather long, somewhat channelled; thornless; leaves much elong, ated; their segments numerous, broad-linear, gradually narrowed to the pointed summit, nearly flat at the margin, inserted along the edges of the above hardly raised rhachis; the upper segments gradually shorter and narrower, the lower not much shorter th, an the middle segments, only the very lowest or downward hardly any of them much abbreviated; antheriferous amentum ellipsoid, not so long as its glabrous stalk; its scales also glabrous, those of the middle and lower portion of the amentum simply ending, in a triangular not spinulous apex, but externally depressed into a small flat rhomboid aureole; scales of the upper portion gradually extended into a terminal spine, but the latter, even in the uppermost scales, conspicuously shorter than the antherifero, us area; fruit bearing amentum rather large, glabrous, nearly twice as long and broad as that of the other sex, ellipsoid, with a slightly conical attenuation upwards; the seeds bearing scales not appressed, thornless, far from reaching the summit of thee, xternal area of the scales; nuts rather large. On sand lands of Fraser's Island, sometimes growing gregariously. (Extra print from the Melbourne 'Chemist and Druggist' Feb 1883. | ||||
| Determinations: | 218.00 ZAMIACEAE Macrozamia douglasii T. Hill. 218.00 ZAMIACEAE Encephalartos douglasii | ||||