Editing Macrozamia secunda (section)

===Pinnae: ===
The pinnae on ''M. secunda'' normally rise from one side of the rhachis at an extremely acute angle and either:

</li><li>stand almost vertically and form two more or less parallel rows along the entire length of the rhachis.
The untwisted rhachis of ''M. secunda'' is usually curved in a sickle-shaped or arched manner and often has a sharply recurved apical section; which can result in the extremity of the frond (or the downwardly-inclined pinnae on the recurved section of the frond) almost reaching or sometimes touching the ground "
see attached line drawing of ''M. secunda'', by G J Harden (Figure 10),
from the 1980 book "The Flora of Mt. Arthur Reserve, Wellington, N.S.W.", which illustrates this particular frond trait.
Near Mudgee, the fronds normally grow to an average length of 30 to 50 cm while, paradoxically, their average above ground height usually ranges from 20 to 35cm.
Although it may seem incongruous for the above ground height of the fronds to sometimes be considerably less than their overall length, this, in fact, does occur because of the tendency of the fronds to curve or arch in an almost semi-circular manner " with the result that the tips of the upwardly-inclined median pinnae often stand (relatively) much higher, above ground level, than the tip of the frond.