Zamia furfuraceaL.f.

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WFO wfo-0000429969 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Zamia furfuracea, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. a Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-27 / obs. 180960935
Zamia furfuracea, photographed by Obed Palagot Echavarria
fig. b Obed Palagot Echavarria, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 72857774
Zamia furfuracea, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. c Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26467388
Zamia furfuracea, photographed by mark-groeneveld
fig. d mark-groeneveld, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101776683
Zamia furfuracea, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. e Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172715070
Zamia furfuracea, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. f Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116112906
Zamia furfuracea, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. g Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115631527
Zamia furfuracea, photographed by Jade Fortnash
fig. h Jade Fortnash, CC0 1.0 / obs. 108752297

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Zamia furfuracea is native: Mexico Gulf Mexico Gulf
Native distribution of Zamia furfuracea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Encephalartos latifolius Sweet
  • Palma pumila Mill.
  • Palmifolium furfuraceum (L.f. ex Aiton) Kuntze
  • Palmifolium latifolium (Lodd. ex A.DC.) Kuntze
  • Zamia crassifolia hort. ex T.Moore
  • Zamia furfuracea var. furfuracea
  • Zamia furfuracea var. trewii A.DC.
  • Zamia latifolia Lodd. ex Miq.
  • Zamia loddigesii var. latifolia (Regel) J.Schust.
  • Zamia muricata var. obtusifolia Miq.
  • Zamia vestita Van Houtte

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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