Bowenia spectabilis

Hook.f. (1863)

Common names

Bungkay (Bonta and Osborne 2005).

Taxonomic notes

No data as of 2026-01-14.

Description

No data as of 2026-01-14.

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 2026-01-14.

Ethnobotany

No data as of 2026-01-14.

Observations

No data as of 2026-01-14.

Remarks

No data as of 2026-01-14.

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