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Cycas multipinnata C.J.Chen & S.Y.Yang

Royal sago

Cycadaceae · China South-Central, Vietnam

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Cycas multipinnata, photograph Tequila, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCycas multipinnata, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsCycas multipinnata, photograph andy_king50, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCycas multipinnata, photograph andy_king50, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCycas multipinnata, photograph Awinch1001, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsCycas multipinnata, photograph Awinch1001, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 8 photographs ›

Summary

Cycas multipinnata (or Epicycas multipinnata), common name Royal Sago, is a species of cycad of the Sago Palm Family (Cycadaceae) in southwestern China and northern Vietnam. It is one of the tuberous species which some taxonomists segregate as the genus Epicycas, and has the longest leaf stalks (petioles) of any Gymnosperm; up to 3.4 metres (11 ft). Cultivated plants have had petioles as long as 4 m (13 ft). The total length of the bipinnate frond can be up to 7 m (23 ft). More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cycas multipinnata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Cycas

Cycas is a genus of cycad, and the only genus in the family Cycadaceae with all other genera of cycad being within the Zamiaceae family. Cycas circinalis, a species endemic to India, was the first cycad species to be described in western literature, and is the type species of the genus.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cycas", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Vietnam · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker23.359, 103.16 · in the densest population, 4 records (67% of those in range)
Kew's description“subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Tequila, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; andy_king50, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Awinch1001, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Cycas 39 in the reference

Cycas armstrongii Cycas armstrongii Zamia Palm Photo: CC BY, Stella FishCycas balansae Cycas balansae Balansa's sago Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCycas bifida Cycas bifida Cycadaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Agnieszka Kwiecień, NovaCycas bougainvilleana Cycas bougainvilleana Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, C T JohanssonCycas cairnsiana Cycas cairnsiana Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQCycas calcicola Cycas calcicola Cycad Photo: CC BY, Donna Belder Cycas chamaoensis Chamao Hill Cycad Cycas changjiangensis Cycadaceae Cycas circinalis Cycas circinalis Queen sago Photo: CC BY, Navaneeth Sini GeorgeCycas clivicola Cycas clivicola Cycad Photo: CC BY, Caleb CattoCycas debaoensis Cycas debaoensis Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, DaderotCycas diannanensis Cycas diannanensis Cycadaceae Photo: CC0, Daderot all 40 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cycas micholitzii subsp. multipinnata; Cycas micholitzii var. multipinnata; Epicycas multipinnata. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Cycadaceae
Described by
C.J.Chen & S.Y.Yang
Native to
China South-Central, Vietnam
Wild records
6 in range · 6 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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