| Zamia | |
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| Zamia furfuracea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnospermae |
| Division: | Cycadophyta |
| Class: | Cycadopsida |
| Order: | Cycadales |
| Family: | Zamiaceae |
| Subtribe: | Zamiinae |
| Genus: | Zamia L.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Zamia pumila | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Zamia is a genus of cycad of the family Zamiaceae, native to North America from the United States (in Georgia and Florida) throughout the West Indies, Central America, and South America as far south as Bolivia.[2][3][4][5] The genus is considered to be the most ecologically and morphologically diverse of the cycads, and is estimated to have originated about 68.3 million years ago.[6]
- ^ "Genus: Zamia L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2009-08-27. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Hill, K.D. & Stevenson, D.W. (1999). A world list of Cycads, 1999. Excelsa 19: 67-72.
- ^ Flora of North America, vol 2, Zamia integrifolia Linnaeus f. in Aiton, Hort. Kew. 3: 478. 1789.
- ^ Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1958. Cycadaceae. In Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. (Eds), Flora of Guatemala - Part I. Fieldiana, Bot. 24(1): 11–20.
- ^ Monteza-Moreno, Claudio M.; Rodriguez-Castro, Lilisbeth; Castillo-Caballero, Pedro L.; Toribio, Edgar; Saltonstall, Kristin (2022). "Arboreal camera trapping sheds light on seed dispersal of the world's only epiphytic gymnosperm: Zamia pseudoparasitica". Ecology and Evolution. 12 (3): e8769. Bibcode:2022EcoEv..12E8769M. doi:10.1002/ece3.8769. PMC 8948316. PMID 35356569.