CONSERVATION STATUS:
- Critically endangered.
CULTIVATION:
- Light shade to full sun.
- Regular watering with good drainage.
- Frost tolerant.
PROPAGATION:
- Propagated from seed and suckers and grows fairly fast.
NATURAL HABITAT:
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STEM:
- Erect, aerial stem that can attain a length of up to 3 meters and a diameter of 35 cm.
- The stem tends to recline when long.
- Apex is covered by brown hairy cataphylls.
LEAVES:
- Leaves are glossy dark green with duller, paler green on the lower sides.
- Leaves are stiff and straight with a slightly downward curve.
- Leaflets do not shield one another except at the leaf apices.
- Leaflet margins have teeth on both margins but sometimes can be entire.
- Leaflet margins tend to be recurved.
CONES:
- Male cones tend to be hairless with a light yellow colour. Female cones are covered with a thin felt-like brown hairy outer layer partially obscuring the greenish yellow underlying colour. Bullae of the female cones are covered by warty knobs along the margins of the terminal facets.
