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Encephalartos lanatus Stapf & Burtt Davy

Olifants River Cycad; Woolly Cycad; Olifant River Cycad

Zamiaceae · Northern Provinces

No habitat climate
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Summary

Encephalartos lanatus (Olifants River cycad) is a species of cycad, a plant belonging to the family Zamiaceae growing in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Its specific epithet, lanatus, means wooly in Latin.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Encephalartos lanatus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Encephalartos

Encephalartos is a genus of cycad native to Africa. Several species of Encephalartos are commonly referred to as bread trees, or bread palms since a bread-like starchy food can be prepared from the centre of the stem. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος, meaning "head", and ἄρτος, meaning "bread", referring to the use of the pith to make food. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 27 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 27 of the 27 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.
NativeNorthern Provinces · 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 marker-25.667, 29.298 · in the densest population, 27 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 27 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 18 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 27 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 27 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: JMK, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); andy_king50, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Encephalartos 48 in the reference

Encephalartos aemulans Encephalartos aemulans Ngotshe Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, andy_king50 Encephalartos afer Zamiaceae Encephalartos altensteinii Encephalartos altensteinii Eastern Cape Cycad Photo: CC BY, Henry de LangeEncephalartos aplanatus Encephalartos aplanatus Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, andy_king50Encephalartos arenarius Encephalartos arenarius Alexandria Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, J BrewEncephalartos barteri Encephalartos barteri Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, C T JohanssonEncephalartos bubalinus Encephalartos bubalinus Lake Natron Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, DryasEncephalartos cerinus Encephalartos cerinus Waxen Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, andy_king50Encephalartos chimanimaniensis Encephalartos chimanimaniensis Chimanimani Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, andy_king50Encephalartos concinnus Encephalartos concinnus Runde Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, J BrewEncephalartos cupidus Encephalartos cupidus Blyde River Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, User:BotBln Encephalartos dyerianus Lowveld Cycad all 49 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Zamiaceae
Described by
Stapf & Burtt Davy
Native to
Northern Provinces
Wild records
27 in range · 18 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; 5 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2227 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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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