Female cone and foliage on a specimen in the Los Angeles County Arboretum [C.J. Earle, 12-Mar-1998].
Range map for species of Dioon (1).
Common Names
Taxonomic notes
Description
" It differs from D. merolae principally in having nonimbricated leaflets along the rachis and by its normal rather than oblique leaflet insertions" (2).Range
Mexico: Oaxaca: "in the understory of humid, pine-oak forest on slopes of the Pacific side of the Sierra del Madre" (2).Big Tree
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Jones 1993.(2) Norstog & Nichols 1997.
[Dioon] [Zamiaceae] [home]
This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/za/di/holmgrenii.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 21-Dec-98