Range map for species of Dioon (1).
Common Names
Taxonomic notes
Description
"This species, which resembles D. spinulosum in overall habit, differs from it in having smooth-edged leaflets ... though the petiole is spinous. It is also unique in the greenish-gray color and abruptly acuminate shape of the female cone, and in having ovules with a chalazal appendix (i.e., an outgrowth opposite the micropyle)" (2).Range
Honduras: Department of Olancho: in a dry, rocky canyon, where first discovered; also in Nicaragua (2).Big Tree
Ethnobotany
Observations
I have seen it at Flecker Botanical Gardens in Cairns, March 1996, but not in habitat.Remarks
Named for "Dr. Isidoro Meijia, from whose garden the plant was first collected and described" (2).Citations
(1) Jones 1993.(2) Norstog & Nichols 1997.
See also:
De Luca, P. and S. Sabato. 1979. Nomenclature and taxonomy of Dioon meijiae Standley & Williams (Zamiaceae). Delpinoa, n.s., 20: 45-50.
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