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    Cycas Rumphii Vs Cycas Circinalis

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    C. rumphii is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, inhabiting closed woodlands on calcareous substrates near coasts. It grows taller than C. circinalis, with larger leaves containing more leaflets and basal leaflets that do not gradually reduce to spines. C. circinalis is endemic to India, found in seasonally dry scrubby woodlands in the Western Ghats region. It grows smaller than C. rumphii and has leaves with fewer leaflets and basal leaflets that gradually reduce to spines.

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    C. rumphii is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, inhabiting closed woodlands on calcareous substrates near coasts. It grows taller than C. circinalis, with larger leaves containing more leaflets and basal leaflets that do not gradually reduce to spines. C. circinalis is endemic to India, found in seasonally dry scrubby woodlands in the Western Ghats region. It grows smaller than C. rumphii and has leaves with fewer leaflets and basal leaflets that gradually reduce to spines.

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    C. rumphii is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, inhabiting closed woodlands on calcareous substrates near coasts. It grows taller than C. circinalis, with larger leaves containing more leaflets and basal leaflets that do not gradually reduce to spines. C. circinalis is endemic to India, found in seasonally dry scrubby woodlands in the Western Ghats region. It grows smaller than C. rumphii and has leaves with fewer leaflets and basal leaflets that gradually reduce to spines.

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    C. rumphii is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, inhabiting closed woodlands on calcareous substrates near coasts. It grows taller than C. circinalis, with larger leaves containing more leaflets and basal leaflets that do not gradually reduce to spines. C. circinalis is endemic to India, found in seasonally dry scrubby woodlands in the Western Ghats region. It grows smaller than C. rumphii and has leaves with fewer leaflets and basal leaflets that gradually reduce to spines.

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    Comparison of descriptive characters, distribution, and habitat of Cycas rumphii and C.

    circinalis
    Cycas rumphii Descriptive characters: Stems Leaves arborescent, to 3(-10) m tall 11-20 cm in diameter at narrowest point bright green, highly glossy 150-250 cm long flat (not keeled) in section (opposing leaflets inserted at 180 on rachis) 150-200 leaflets orange tomentum shedding as leaf expands rachis consistently terminated by paired leaflets petiole 35-60 cm long (20-30% of total leaf), glabrous, spinescent for 80-100% of length basal leaflets 19 cm long, not gradually reducing to spines facultatively deciduous in extremely dry times Cataphylls simple, strongly discolorous 220-320 mm long, 12-16 mm wide inserted at 70-85 to rachis decurrent for 5-8 mm narrowed to 4.5-7 mm at base (to 3550% of maximum width) 15-19 mm apart on rachis median leaflets section flat margins slightly recurved apex acute, not spinescent midrib flat above, raised below Cycas circinalis arborescent, to 5 m tall bright green, semiglossy 150-250 cm long flat (not keeled) in section (opposing leaflets inserted at 180 on rachis) 170 leaflets tomentum shedding as leaf expands petiole 40-70 cm long, glabrous, spinescent for 90% of length basal leaflets not gradually reducing to spines not facultatively deciduous

    Median leaflets

    simple, weakly discolorous 150-300 mm long, 7-12 mm wide, narrowed to 2.5 mm at base 12 mm apart on rachis median leaflets section flat margins flat apex softly acuminate, not spinescent midrib raised above, flat below

    narrowly triangular soft, pilose

    narrowly triangular soft, thinly sericeous or lacking tomentum 50 mm long persistent narrowly ovoid orange 45 cm long, 10 cm in diameter microsporophyll lamina firm, not dorsiventrally thickened, 38-50 mm long, 12-19 mm wide apical spine prominent, gradually raised, 25 mm long 30 cm long brown-tomentose ovules 4-10, glabrous lamina lanceolate, 74-100 mm long, 2538 mm wide regularly dentate, with 24 pungent lateral spines apical spine distinct from lateral spines subglobose 25-38 mm long sarcotesta yellow fibrous layer present sclerotesta smooth spongy endocarp absent

    Pollen cones

    fusiform yellow to brown (pale) microsporophyll lamina firm, dorsiventrally thickened apical spine rudimentary, sharply upturned, 2-5 mm long

    Megasporophylls

    18-32 cm long white-tomentose or yellow-tomentose ovules 6, glabrous lamina lanceolate, 50-75 mm long, 2535 mm wide obscurely dentate, with 12 soft lateral spines 0-1 mm long, 0-2 mm wide apical spine distinct from lateral spines, 15-25 mm long
    .

    Seeds

    flattened-ovoid 45 mm long, 30 mm wide sarcotesta orange-brown, not pruinose fibrous layer absent sclerotesta apically crested spongy endocarp present

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    Habitat:

    centred on the Moluccan island group (Maluku, or the Spice Islands) extending E into Indonesian Papua and a short way along the N coast of Papua New Guinea, and N to Sulawesi in the west, appears to extend to southern Borneo and NE Java Largely a species of closed woodland or forest on more or less calcareous substrates in near-shore environments

    Indian endemic restricted to the Western Ghats, in the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and the south of Maharashtra

    Typically occurs in fairly dense, seasonally dry, scrubby woodlands in hilly areas

    Information provided is summarized from Ken Hills The Cycad Pages (http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/PlantNet/cycad/index.html).

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