Zamia pumilaL.

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WFO wfo-0000429943 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Zamia pumila, photographed by SiphonophoreSlinger
fig. a SiphonophoreSlinger, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-13 / obs. 182750050
Zamia pumila, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. b Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 116047339
Zamia pumila, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. c Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 116047358
Zamia pumila, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. d Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4457354
Zamia pumila, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4457355
Zamia pumila, photographed by Kent P. McFarland
fig. f Kent P. McFarland, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179060982
Zamia pumila, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. g Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 55546793
Zamia pumila, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. h Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48346599

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Zamia pumila is native: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico CubaDominican RepublicJamaicaPuerto Rico
Native distribution of Zamia pumila, 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
Cuba CUB SOUTHERN AMERICA
Dominican Republic DOM
Jamaica JAM
Puerto Rico PUE

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 13 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 pumilus Sweet
  • Palmifolium debile (Aiton) Kuntze
  • Palmifolium pumilum (L.) Kuntze
  • Zamia allison-armourii Millsp.
  • Zamia concinna Hort.Booth ex Regel
  • Zamia cylindrica Hort.Booth ex Regel
  • Zamia debilis L.f. ex Salisb.
  • Zamia debilis L.f.
  • Zamia humilis Salisb.
  • Zamia laeta Salisb.
  • Zamia latifoliolata Prenlel.
  • Zamia media var. commeliniana J.Schust.
  • Zamia pumila subsp. pumila

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.