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Encephalartos woodii : ウィキペディア英語版 | Encephalartos woodii
Wood's Cycad (''Encephalartos woodii'') is a cycad in the genus ''Encephalartos'', and is endemic to the oNgoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is one of the rarest plants in the world, being extinct in the wild with all specimens being clones of the type.〔 The specific and common name both honour John Medley Wood, curator of the Durban Botanic Garden and director of the Natal Government Herbarium of South Africa, who discovered the plant in 1895. ==Description== It is palm tree like, and can reach a height of . The trunk is about in diameter, thickest at the bottom, and topped by a crown of 50–150 leaves. The leaves are glossy and dark green, in length, and keeled with 70–150 leaflets, the leaflets falcate (sickle-shaped), long and broad. ''E. woodii'' is dioecious, meaning it has separate male and female plants, however no female plant has ever been discovered. The male strobili are cylindrical, long, exceptionally up to , and in diameter; they are a vivid yellow-orange colour. A single plant may bear from around six to eight simultaneously.〔〔
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