Zamia spartea

Zamia spartea is a very distinctive, but restricted and rare species. A small cycad with simple or branched wrinkled subterranean stems.

Height	Subterranean
Diameter	up to 10cm
Leaf size	0.3 –0.6 cm  long
Region	restricted to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Chiapas, Mexico but extending to adjacent areas in Oaxaca
Best suited climate	subtropical and warm temperate regions

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