Bowenia spectabilis

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Common name:         Zamia Fern

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Habitat:   

• Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests

• It grows close to streams and on sheltered slopes in lowland wet sclerophyll forest

• It is also at an altitude of up to 700 metres in the Atherton Tableland

Distribution:                  

• It is endemic to Queensland, Australia

• It is found in northeastern Queensland from the McIlwraith Range on the Cape York Peninsula south to near Tully

Additional notes:     

• Use

  • The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia' records that the yam-like rhizome is used for food by the Indigenous Australians