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Macrozamia concinna
Macrozamia concinna is a part of the plant family, Zamiaceae. It originates from a division of Cycadophyta which encompasses the complete species of cycads. M. concinna is primarily habituated in New South Wales, Australia and maintains a distinct appearance allowing it to be easily identifiable from other cycads. M. concinna also implements a unique method of reproduction to fertilise its offsprings, as opposed to the common method of wind pollination. This difference in reproduction mechanisms has survived throughout the ages of prehistoric cycad species and M. concinna continues to procreate with it.
The population of M. concinna is under threat from habitat loss associated with urbanisation, potential reproduction failure and loss to fire.
M. concinna is known to possess qualities that thrive in dry areas but also survive cold temperatures through their acclimation to higher latitudes of placement. This results in great difficulty in sporing one within a controlled environment. The rarity of doing so has been noted by various bloggers to being one that is difficult to attain in maturity. Adversely, it is also a plant that lacks the necessary qualities that attracts botanists or plant enthusiast to actively pursue an adult sample.
M. concinna is endemic to New South Wales and is classified as part of their native flora. They are usually fond of dry areas and can be found in dry eucalyptus forests under a eucalyptus canopy with a medium to dense understory. The sparsely spread species is usually found in habitats containing dry sclerophyll woodlands present through upper hunter valley, north of the Nundle and hanging Rock region, ranging outwards all the way through to around Liverpool plains(CSIRO, 1998). The plants usually prefer slopes at high altitude, with an elevation of 800 metres to 1200 metres. M. concinna has been spotted on several occasions but its most recent spotting has happened to be on hanging rock, at an elevation of approximately 900m.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Macrozamia concinna 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.
