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 Zamia
Key to the species and description.
Zamia amazonum
Widely spread, common species with small seed cones.
Zamia amblyphyllidia
Threatened variant with forked leaflets.
Zamia amplifolia
Rare species with large leaves.
Zamia angustifolia
Most narrow leaflets of any species; rare and native only to Bahamas.
Zamia boliviana
Very rare species with brown cones, native to sandy regions of Bolivia.
Zamia chigua
Species with numerous leaflets; native to Panama and Colombia.
Zamia cremnophila
This species has reddish leaves and is native to cliffs in a small section of Tabasco, Mexico.
Zamia cunaria
Species with long leaflets and wine-red seed cones; native to a small area of Cuna Yala, Panama, but not presently threatened.
Zamia cupatiensis
Contains a picture and a claim that a starchy meal can be prepared from the swollen underground stem.
Zamia disodon
Extremely species with transparant, double toothed leaflets; has been found only in northern Colombia.
Zamia dressleri
Species with large leaves, native to Panama.
Zamia encephalartoides
Large species whose leaves have leaves with smooth petioles; found in Santander, Colombia.
Zamia fischeri
Found in rocky areas of San Luis Potosi and Querétaro, Mexico; has proportionately large stems and seed cones.
Zamia herrerae
Central American species with toothed leaflets; not well studied, but believed to be endangered.
Zamia ipetiensis
Threatened species from Panama with elongate but broadly obovate leaflets.
Zamia jirijirimensis
Karapaná and Taiwano Indians often prepare a starchy meal from the underground part of this xerophytic plant that grows in relative profusion in the sandy savannah of Raudal de Jirijirimo.
Zamia lacandona
Non-threatened species, with curved and slightly obovate leaflets; lives in East Chiapas, Mexico, and is able to regrow in burned areas.
Zamia Linnaeus
Brief overview of the genus.
Zamia manicata
This species, found in Panama and Colombia, has a characteristic 'collar' around the base of each leaflet.
Zamia melanorrhachis
Unthreatened species native to Columbia; lives in lowland forests.
Zamia montana
This endangered species, known by its long obovate leaflets, may be extinct in the wild. In any event, it lives only in Antioquia, Columbia.
Zamia monticola
Zamia muricata
Zamia neurophyllidia
Zamia paucijuga
Provides a map showing where the taxon can be found as well as published resources.
Zamia polymorpha
Exhibits extreme variability in leaf and leaflet morphology which has been shown in a few cases where some leaves were in the sun and others were in the shade.
Zamia portoricensis
One of the Caribbean species of Zamia that is found only in Western Puerto Rico where it grows on very dry limestone soils that often contain an element of serpentine.
Zamia pseudomonticola
Endemic to Southwestern Costa Rica where it occurs on somewhat acidic soils in the understory of cloud forests from 1,000 to 1,300 meters.
Zamia pumila
Contains reddish seed cones with a distinct acuminate tip combined with leaflets with distinct apical teeth and is usually found in the Dominican Republic.
Zamia skinneri
Is primarily found in rainforests from northern to central Atlantic Panama at elevations from 50 to 750 meters and contains a massive trunk, leaves, and strobili.
Zamia soconuscensis
Linear-lanceolate leaflet with entire margins and an attenuate apices. Leaflets are often adaxially concave.
Zamia spartea
Contains narrow, often gray green, leaflets and is very rare. It has been collected only a few times in the over 100 years since it was first described.
Zamia tuerckheimii
Has iridescent blue-green, oblong-lanceolate leaflets with entire margins and abruptly acuminate apices.
Zamia urep
Contains a combination of symmetrical, almost perfectly elliptic to broadly lanceolate, leaflets with sharply serrated margins and acuminate apices and unarmed petioles and rachis.
Zamia variegata
Lists a publication concerning the taxon and where it can be found.
Zamia vazquezii
Contains leaves longer than 30 cm, are erect, and have more than 12 pairs of leaflets.
Zamia verschaffeltii
Contains a listing of published resources about the taxon.
Zamia wallisii
The most endangered species of Zamia in Columbia which was discovered in 1875, collected once again in 1888 by Kalbreyer and then not seen again for 100 years.
Zamias and Chiguas of Colombia
Article with many photographs.
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