Editing Macrozamia communis (section)

===Affinities: ===
In respect of New South Wales cycads,
''M. communis'' has a very close affinity with ''M. montana''
and a lesser relationship with the very much smaller ''M. reducta''.
''M. montana'' and ''M. reducta'' were both identified in 1998 as separate
and distinct species. ''M. montana'' was named by Ken Hill, while ''M. reducta'' was named
by Ken Hill and David Jones. Prior to 1998, ''M. montana'' and ''M. reducta''
were both considered to fall under the ''M. communis'' umbrella.
Confusion has occurred, in respect of the identification of ''M. communis''
and ''M. spiralis'', despite the reclassification of the nomenclature of
Australian Zamiaceae by Dr L. A. S. Johnson in 1959, when ''M. communis''
was created to cover what was previously incorrectly known
in New South Wales as ''M. spiralis''.
Compared with ''M. communis'', ''M. spiralis'' is a small cycad that grows
in a pattern of scattered individual plants or, sometimes, small clumps of plants.
It normally has between 2 and 12 fronds, which stand up to 60 to 90 cm above ground level
and has absolutely no affinity with ''M. communis''.

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[[File:Macrozamia_communis06.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''M. communis'' with "skirt" of dead fronds.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis16.jpg|frame|Figure 3. ''M. communis'' in habitat.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis10.jpg|frame|Figure 4. Craig Thompson examining ''M. communis'' in habitat.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis03.jpg|frame|Figure 5. ''M. communis'' with divided trunk.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis04.jpg|frame|Figure 6. ''M. communis'' with divided trunk, with tall single trunked specimen in background.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis07.jpg|frame|Figure 7. ''M. communis'' disintegrating cone with red seeds.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis15.jpg|frame|Figure 8. ''M. communis'' with 3 disintegrating cones in crown of female.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis13.jpg|frame|Figure 9. ''M. communis'' seeds at base of female plant (mostly with flesh removed by kangaroos).]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis14.jpg|frame|Figure 10. ''M. communis'' seeds and young seedlings at base of female plant.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis08.jpg|frame|Figure 11. ''M. communis'' disintegrating cone with yellow seeds.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis12.jpg|frame|Figure 12. ''M. communis'' male cone + pinnae reduced to spines at the base of a frond.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis09.jpg|frame|Figure 13. ''M. communis'' female cones in habitat.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis02.jpg|frame|Figure 14. ''M. communis'' in habitat.]]
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[[File:Macrozamia_communis17.jpg|frame|Figure 15. Getting that shot.]]
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