Sentences with phrase «cycad species»

Sago palms (Cycad species) can cause liver damage, especially if the nut portion of the plant is consumed.

Its case is far from unique; the IUCN's Red List classes an appalling 63 per cent of cycad species as threatened.

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There are an estimated 270,000 known species of angiosperms, or flowering plants, but only about 900 species of gymnosperms, which are nonflowering plants such as conifers, cycads, and ginkgoes.

The gorge has more than 500 plant species, including orchids, proteas and various cycads; there are over 255 bird species, including the fish eagle and Cape vulture, and the rare samango monkey makes the gorge its home.

Extraordinary collections of orchids, ferns, carnivorous plants, and tropical species are housed in the humid hot houses; and the cycad and palm garden features some dramatic and architectural species from around the world.

Close to Modjadjikloof is the unique «Modjadji Cycad Reserve» it is named after the successive rain - making queens who have inhabited the area since the 16th century, guarding the ancient cycads., the 305 - ha reserve features the world's largest concentration of a single - species cycad, also known as the «Modjadji palm&raCycad Reserve» it is named after the successive rain - making queens who have inhabited the area since the 16th century, guarding the ancient cycads., the 305 - ha reserve features the world's largest concentration of a single - species cycad, also known as the «Modjadji palm&racycad, also known as the «Modjadji palm».

The other lineage (known as Euphyllophyta) includes two major clades: the spermatophytes or seed plants (including more than 250,000 species of angiosperms [flowering plants], conifers, cycads, gnetophytes, and the Gingko) and the monilophytes or ferns (sensu lato, including the horsetails, whisk ferns, and eusporangiate and leptosporangiate ferns, with most of the roughly 12,000 monilophyte species being leptosporangiate ferns).

And the scientists say that since 90 % of all tree species on Earth are tropical trees, trees deserve to be considered along with cycads, amphibians and corals as those groups with the highest proportion of threatened species.