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Zamia montana A.Braun

Zamiaceae · Colombia

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Zamia montana A.Braun: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Braun.

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Summary

Zamia montana is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to Antioquia Department, Colombia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Zamia montana is extremely rare. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Zamia montana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Zamia

Zamia is a genus of cycad of the family Zamiaceae, native to North America from the United States throughout the West Indies, Central America, and South America as far south as Bolivia. The genus is considered to be the most ecologically and morphologically diverse of the cycads, and is estimated to have originated about 68.3 million years ago.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 4 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 4 of the 4 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.

NativeColombia · 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 marker6.744, -76.294 · in the densest population, 4 records (100% of those in range)

Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 19 km away. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 4 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 4 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Zamia 37 in the reference

Zamia angustifolia Cycad Photo: CC BY-SA, Stan Shebs

Zamia cunaria Zamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Kai Squires Zamia elegantissima Zamiaceae Zamia encephalartoides Cycad

Zamia erosa Zamia Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt Miller

Zamia fairchildiana Zamiaceae Photo: CC BY, chrisdt

Zamia fischeri Zamiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Juan Cruzado Cortés

Zamia furfuracea Cardboard palm Photo: CC BY, Nash Turley Zamia herrerae Cycad

Zamia huilensis Zamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Pompeya Reserva Natural Zamia imperialis Zamiaceae

Zamia incognita Zamiaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 38 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Aulacophyllum montanum; Zamia kalbreyeri. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family

Zamiaceae

Described by

A.Braun

Native to

Colombia

Wild records

4 in range · 2 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 2026-10-22GBIF's key 5284130 is Zamia montana Braun; the page links Kew's Zamia montana A.Braun, and the name is cited as Kew cites it

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 2026-10-224 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 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.