Bowenia spectabilis

Hook. f. 1863

Common names

Bungkay (Bonta and Osborne 2005).

Taxonomic notes

A related taxon is the undescribed (in 1993) Bowenia sp. 'Tinaroo' (Jones 1993).

Description

Distribution and Ecology

Australia, northeastern Queensland from the McIlwraith Range on the Cape York Peninsula south to near Tully. Grows in or near rainforest, close to streams and on sheletered slopes in wet sclerophyll forest, mostly in lowland areas but at elevations up to 700m in the Atherton Tableland (Jones 1993). Range map: see Bowenia.

Remarkable Specimens

No data as of 2023.03.03.

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

Citations

Bonta, Mark and Roy Osborne. 2005. Cycads in the vernacular, a compendium of local names. http://www.cycad.org/documents/Bonta-Osborne-Cycads-Vernacular.pdf, accessed 2017.12.29.

Hooker, J.D. 1863. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 89, tab 5398. Available: Biodiversity Heritage Library, accessed 2012.11.25.

See also