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[[File:Zamia_muricata.jpg|right|frame|Figure 1. Z. muricata in Anderson Park Botanic Gardens, Townsville, Queensland.]]
===Conservation Status:===
Not threatened

===Distribution & Habitat:===
It grows as an understory plant mainly from sea level to 300m
in primary forest to well-established secondary forest on rocky to clay soils
in north-eastern and coastal Colombia to central coastal area of Venezuela.

===Description:===
A small cycad with a stem to 15cm tall, 2-6 leaves up to 2m long.
Leaflets are oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 15-20cm long and 2-4 cm wide,
and the petiole is sparsely prickled.
New leaves are an attractive bronze colour.
Very similar in appearance to ''Z. lecointei''.

===Culture:===
Shady, well drained position.

[[File:Zamia_muricata02.jpg|left|frame|Figure 2. ''Z. muricata'' female cones.]]
[[File:Zamia_muricata03.jpg|right|frame|Figure 3. ''Z. muricata'' new leaf.]]
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===Contributed by: ===
Gregg Cuffe (Figure 1&2)<br>
Colin Wilson (Figure 3)<br>
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