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Encephalartos lanatus
Also called Olifants River Cycad, Olifant River Cycad
Encephalartos lanatus (Olifants River cycad) is a species of cycad, a plant belonging to the family Zamiaceae growing in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Its specific epithet, lanatus, means wooly in Latin.
This species is widespread in a very limited area of the provinces of Mpumalanga and Gauteng, South Africa, at the Wilges and Olifants River catchment area. Its habitat consists of steep rocky slopes covered with prairie, with warm weather in summer and cold in winter when frosts often occur and with an annual precipitation around 700mm. It grows at an altitude of about 1,500 m above mean sea level between rocks, withstands fier and strong frosts (-10°).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Encephalartos lanatus 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.
