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Encephalartos trispinosus is a species of cycad that is native to South Africa.[2]

Encephalartos trispinosus
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
(unranked):	Gymnosperms
Division:	Cycadophyta
Class:	Cycadopsida
Order:	Cycadales
Family:	Zamiaceae
Genus:	Encephalartos
Species:	E. trispinosus
Binomial name
Encephalartos trispinosus R.A. Dyer

Description

It is a cycad with an erect stem up to 1 m tall and with a diameter of 25-30 cm, often with secondary stems originating from basal suckers. The leaves, pinnate, arranged in a crown at the apex of the stem, from gray-greenish to blue, are up to 1.4 m long, composed of numerous pairs of obovate, coriaceous, tomentose leaves, up to 18 cm long, with 1-3 spines on the lower margin and a pungent apex. It is a dioecious species, with male specimens that have 1 or rarely 2 erect, sub-cylindrical cones, 25–35 cm long and about 8 cm broad, yellow to green in color, and female specimens with solitary cylindrical-ovoid cones, long about 40–50 cm and wide 16–18 cm, with a conical apex, yellow to greenish-yellow in color. The seeds are roughly ovoid, about 3.5 cm long, covered with a brown to red sarcotesta.[3]

References

External links

• Media related to Encephalartos trispinosus at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Encephalartos trispinosus at Wikispecies

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Encephalartos trispinosus  (лат.) — вечнозелёное древовидное растение рода Энцефаляртос (Encephalartos).

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