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Cycas

a genus of gymnosperms of the class Cycadopsida. There are about 20 species, distributed from Madagascar and the Comoro Islands to South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and Polynesia. Two species from Southeast Asia are particularly well known: C. circinalis and C. revoluta. Both species are cultivated in the USSR as ornamentals on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus.

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(Cycadales: Cycadaceae), a threatened species of India.

Comparative Biology of Cycad Pollen, Seed and Tissue--A Plant Conservation Perspective

"Cycadaceae" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycas [Accessed 13 October 2014].

First UAE and Arabian records of Chilades pandava, the Cycad Cupid butterfly, an introduced oriental species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) hosted by the ornamental sago plant Cycas revoluta

ISSR variation in the endemic and endangered plant Cycas guizhouensis (Cycadaceae).

Estimation of genetic variation in closely related cycad species in Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae: Cycadales) using RAPDs markers

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Evaluation of sustainable use of urban afforestation in Cafeara City, Parana State/Avaliacao do uso sustentavel da arborizacao urbana no Municipio de Cafeara, Parana

Aulacaspis yasumatsui (Diaspididae), a native of Thailand that has become a serious pest of Cycadaceae in many countries, was first recorded from Indonesia (Java) by Muniappan et al.

Sap-sucking insect records (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha and Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from Indonesia

Audran (1981) described orbicule development in Ceratozamia (Cycadaceae) and Rowley and Walles (1987) in Pinus.

Orbicules in flowering plants: a phylogenetic perspective on their form and function

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Ethnomedicinal plants of folk medicinal practitioners in four villages of Natore and Rajshahi districts, Bangladesh

seed Cupressaceae Juniperus osteosperma (Torr.) Little seed Cycadaceae Macrozamia reidlei (Fisch.

Bioactive crude plant seed extracts from the NCAUR oilseed repository

Cycas pectinata Cycadaceae Moni raj Buch.-Ham Cyperus rotundus L.

A survey on medicinal plants used by the folk medicinal practitioners in three villages of Panchagarh and Thakurgaon district, Bangladesh

In the case of Cycas revoluta Thunberg (Cycadaceae), the architecture of the plant itself, with the margins of the leaflets curling down and inward to form an arch on the abaxial surface of the leaflet, makes foliar treatments inefficient (Hodges et al.

Pesticide susceptibility of Cybocephalus nipponicus and Rhyzobius lophanthae (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae, Coccinellidae)

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Ethnomedicinal survey of Bheramara area in Kushtia district, Bangladesh