Bowenia

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Conservation status: unkown

Etymology:   

Cones and seed:                              

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Habitat:   

• B. spectabilis 

  • Grows in warm, wet, tropical rainforests, on protected slopes and near streams, primarily in the lowlands of the Wet Tropics Bioregion

    • However, it has a local form with serrate pinna margins that grows in rainforest, Acacia-dominated transition forest, and also Casuarina-dominated sclerophyll forest on the Atherton Tableland, where it is subject to periodic bushfire

  • B. serrulata 

    • Grows in sclerophyll forest and transition forest close to the Tropic of Capricorn

Distribution:                  

• The two living species occur in Queensland

• They are entirely restricted to Australia

Additional notes:     

• Fossils

  • The genus Bowenia includes two living and two fossil species of cycads in the family Stangeriaceae, sometimes placed in their own family Boweniaceae.

  • The fossil species Bowenia eocenica is known from deposits in a coal mine in Victoria, Australia

  • B. papillosa is known from deposits in NSW of Eocene age, and consist of leaflet fragments