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Escarpment cycad
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IUCN EW · Extinct in the wild

Escarpment cycad

Encephalartos brevifoliolatus

Encephalartos brevifoliolatus, the escarpment cycad, is a cycad in the African genus Encephalartos. It is extinct in the wild. The escarpment cycad is an African plant that was found in South Africa in short grasslands in the very open Protea savanna. These plants are used to growing on large cliffs.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 136090.