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Bowenia

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Bowenia
a genus of Australian cycads in the plant family Stangeriaceae; contain cycad glucoside causing a staggers syndrome in cattle. Includes B. serrulata (Byfield fern), B. spectabilis (zamia fern).


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The Skye specimens show some similarities with petioles of the extant cycad Bowenia spectabilis Hook.
Even older plants of some species possess high shade tolerance, as was shown in studies by Dehgan and McConnell (1984), and many taxa, such as Bowenia spp.
 
 
 
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