Wood's cycad, Encephalartos woodii, is a cycad native to the Ngoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, known from only a single wild clump of stems, all part of one male plant, discovered in 1895 and since removed to cultivation; no female plant has ever been found, and repeated searches of its native habitat have failed to locate another individual. Because it cannot reproduce sexually without a female, every cultivated Wood's cycad in botanical gardens worldwide today is a genetically identical clone propagated from that original plant, making it extinct in the wild despite surviving in cultivation.
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Source Wikidata: Wood's Cycad
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1. Wikipedia: Encephalartos woodii
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Encephalartos woodii, Wood's cycad, is a rare cycad in the genus Encephalartos, and is endemic to the oNgoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Encephalartos woodii, Wood's cycad, is a rare cycad in the genus Encephalartos, and is endemic to the oNgoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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status = EW
View the Source2. Wikidata: Wood's Cycad
Wikidata- Wikidata Q1989057, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): extinct in the wild.
- Wikidata Q1989057 (P225 taxon name)
- Child Taxon Of: Encephalartos, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon)
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