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Encephalartos septentrionalis Schweinf. [WFO] [IPNI] [POWO] [MO]

First published in: Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 29(20): 334. (1871). [BHL]

Etymology: From the Latin septentrionalis (‘north’ or ‘northern’), meant to “establish an important phytogeographic fact,” in reference to the author’s contemporaries not having collected anything similar to it in eastern, western, or southern Africa (Schweinfurth 1871). [source]

Nomenclatural Type Information
Collector and Number: Schweinfurth 2952; 3992
Locality: South Sudan: Gumango
Type Location(s): SYN—K
Type notes: Syntypes sensu Melville (1957)

Distribution: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo (Orientale), South Sudan (Western Equatoria), Uganda (Northern)

IUCN Red List Conservation Status: Near Threatened

References (3)

Comment(s)
2022
Haynes JL. 2022. Etymological compendium of cycad names. Phytotaxa 550 (1) : 1-31.
1876
Regel EA. 1876. Cycadearum generum specierumque revisio. Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 4 (4) : 275-320.
1871
Schweinfurth G. 1871. Bericht über die botanischen Ergebnisse der ersten Niam-Niam Reise. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 29 : 324-341.