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Macrozamia montana
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===Principal Characteristics:=== The principal characteristics of ''M. montana'' are: </li><li>young fronds that are initially a bright green colour, but which change to a glossy dark green when they mature </li><li>fronds that are initially obliquely erect, but which tend to arch with age </li><li>an untwisted rhachis </li><li>entire and sharply-tipped pinnae which are angled forward (at an angle of 45-60 degrees to the rhachis) and which extend in a horizontal plane from the rhachis </li><li>short, broad petioles, ranging from 6-15 cm in length </li><li>pinnae which gradually reduce in size and become spine-like towards the lower sections of the rhachis </li><li>elongated sporophyll-spines on female cones </li><li>whitish callouses where the pinnae meet the rhachis </li><li>seeds with reddish coloured flesh.
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