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Encephalartos laevifolius Stapf & Burtt Davy [WFO] [IPNI] [POWO] [MO]

First published in: Man. Pl. Transvaal [Burtt Davy] 1: 40, 99. (1926).

Etymology: From the Latin laevis (‘smooth’) and folium (‘leaf’), referring to the lack of tomentum on the leaflets (‘smoothness’) compared to the related E. lanatus.) [source]

Nomenclatural Type Information
Collector and Number: Todd s.n.
Locality: South Africa, Transvaal Province, Moodies near Barberton District , Jan 1919
Type Location(s): HT:K; IT:NH

Distribution: Eswatini, South Africa (E Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga)

IUCN Red List Conservation Status: Critically Endangered A2acde; C1+2a(i,ii); D

Image Gallery (3 observation records)

South Africa ()

South Africa (Limpopo)

South Africa (Mpumalanga)

References (6)

Comment(s)
1926
Burtt Davy J. 1926. A manual of the flowering plants and ferns of the Transvaal with Swaziland, South Africa. Part I: Pteridophyta to Bombacaceae. Longmans, Green and Co..
Protologue description
2022
Haynes JL. 2022. Etymological compendium of cycad names. Phytotaxa 550 (1) : 1-31.
1945
Henderson MR. 1945. Materials for a revision of the South African species of Encephalartos. J. S. African Bot. 11 : 3-65. [Reference]
1933
Hutchinson J, Rattray G. 1933. Cycadaceae. p. 24-44.
Description
1989
Osborne R. 1989. Focus on Encephalartos laevifolius. Encephalartos 19 : 2-8.
1926
Stapf O, Burtt-Davy J. 1926. Encephalartos laevifolius. Man. Pl. Transvaal [Burtt Davy] 1 : 97-99.