Encephalartos

There are two threatened endemic cycads Encephalartos marunguensis and E. schmitzii.

Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo 2008

Endemic plant species of interest include Pachypodium bispinosum, P. succulentum and Encephalartos trispinosus.

Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets 2008

The extreme south of the ecoregion contains the critically endangered endemic cycads Encephalartos heenanii and E. paucidentatus, which are largely confined to Songimvelo Nature Reserve.

Zambezian and Mopane woodlands 2008

International trade threatens a range of species, from birds such as the brownheaded parrot (Poicephalus cryptoxanthus) whose populations have been severely impacted by trapping for the cagebird trade, to plants such as the rare and localised Retief cycad (Encephalartos lebomboensis), which has been decimated by cycad collectors.

Maputaland coastal forest mosaic 2007

The endemic cycad (Encephalartos turneri) is found on some of the surrounding inselbergs.

Eastern Miombo woodlands 2007

-- According to Thunberg, the Hottentots being very little acquainted with agriculture, or with the use of the cerealia, and subsisting principally upon wild bulbs and fruits, obtain food also from _Encephalartos caffer_, a species of _Zamia_, with a cylindrical trunk, the thickness of a man's body, and about seven feet high.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

This Encephalartos gratus had flushed a new leaf perfectly aligned with an existing one.

Earth, Wind & Water 2009

Cycads are fairly well represented in this ecoregion with the Kei cycad (Encephalartos princep), Bushman’s river cycad (E. trispinosusi), Alexandria cycad (E. arenarius) and the Albany cycad (E. latifrons) being almost or totally restricted to the ecoregion.

Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets 2008