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Encephalartos kisambo
Also called Cycad
Encephalartos kisambo is a species of cycad in the family Zamiaceae native to Kenya and Tanzania. It is known as the Voi cycad. The species grows on steep, forested hills and rocky slopes, including cloud forest habitat. It is threatened by habitat loss and over-collection for the horticultural trade.
The species is native to Kenya and Tanzania. When it was formally described, it was known with certainty only from a very small area in the Maungu Hills of Kenya. There it was reported from evergreen mist forest and, more occasionally, from exposed slopes in dry bushland at elevations of 800–1,050 m. Most populations occur on steep mountain hills near the Kenya–Tanzania border, where the plants grow in misty forest and cloud forest, with some individuals on drier rocky slopes and cliffsides.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Encephalartos kisambo by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
