{"taxon_id":5936,"scientific_name":"Cycas semota","accepted_common_name":null,"superseded":false,"nca_code":"E","nca_desc":"Endangered","species_profile":true,"epbc_code":null,"epbc_desc":null,"con_sig":true,"sensitive_species":true,"confirm_code":"E","problem":"Nil","prot_area":false,"consv_area":"U","consv_plan":"No","max_lat":-10.879325,"min_lat":-10.902767,"max_long":142.40306,"min_long":142.36474,"establishment_code":"NTQ","establishment_descr":"Native to QLD","wetland_status":null,"recovery_plan":"Unknown","descr_notes":"<i>Cycas semota</i> is a cycad growing to 5m tall and tree-like in general appearance with a trunk up to 24 cm in diameter. The leaves are bright green, semi-glossy, 1.1-1.6m long and keeled (V-shaped) in cross-section, with140-250 leaflets. Young leaves have loose orange or brown hairs shedding as the leaf expands. The petiole (leaf stalk) is 30-40cm long and hairless. The leaflets are 14-20cm long, 6.5-7.5mm wide and spaced about 8-11mm apart along the rhachis (central stalk).<br>The reproductive structures grow from the centre of the plant crown. The ovoid (egg-shaped) male cones are brown, 40-46cm long and 12-14cm in diameter. The female sporophylls (seed bearing structures) are 10-20cm long with a broadly triangular apical lobe 5-6.5 cm long and 3.8-5 cm wide, with an apical spine 19-30 mm long. The seeds are a flattened, ovoid (egg-shape), 3.2-3.7 cm long and 2.8-3.2 mm wide, green to orange and not powdery.<br>Distinguished from the other species by the short female sporophylls (seed bearing structures) and short soft cataphylls (reduced scale-like leaves) with short soft hair. <i>C. tuckeri</i> from farther south has even shorter female sporophylls, with a distinctly shorter and broader lamina. (Hill 1998, 2004)","ecol_notes":null,"reprod_notes":"Male cones shed pollen and female sporophylls are receptive in November - December. Pollination is effected by small beetles in an obligate mutualism.","diet_notes":null,"habitat_notes":"<i>Cycas semota</i> grows in the grassy understorey of moist eucalypt forest and mesophyllous forest. It occurs on shallow, sandy soils over laterite. (Hill 2004)","distrib_notes":"<i>Cycas semota</i> is restricted to the Bamaga region in far northern Cape York, Queensland. 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