Ceratozamia aurantiaca Pérez-Farr., Gut.-Ortega, J.L.Haynes & Vovides (2021:249)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ceratozamia sp. “Presa Alemán”; Ceratozamia martinezii Mart.-Domínguez, Nic.-Mor. & D.W.Stev. in Nordic J. Bot. 2022(1)-e03348: 2 (2021)
This species was known as a population since the 1970's, but despite being introduced into cultivation in the USA (predominantly Florida) it was only formally described, twice accidentally (as C. aurantiaca and C. martinezii), in 2021/22 (Pérez-Farrera et al., 2021; Martínez-Domínguez et al., 2022). It has been argued that the name C. aurantiaca should be the correct name for the species (Haynes, 2022).
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in the wild in 2000 (Pérez-Farrera et al., 2021)
Distribution
Oaxaca, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pérez-Farrera, Miguel Angel et al. (2021). Ceratozamia aurantiaca (Zamiaceae): A New Cycad Species from the Northern Rainforests of Oaxaca, Mexico. Taxonomy 1(3): 243-255. https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy1030018
Other references:
Calonje, M., Stevenson, D. W. and Osborne, R. (2023). The World List of Cycads, online edition [Internet]. 2013-2023. Available from: https://www.cycadlist.org/ [Accessed 20 October 2023]
Haynes, Jody L. (2022). Critical evaluation of two published descriptions of the same species of Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae) from northern Oaxaca, Mexico, and the formal synonymization of C. martinezii under C. aurantiaca. Phytotaxa 575(3): 265-275. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.575.3.4
Haynes, Jody L. (2023). Critical review of “Monograph of Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae, Cycadales): an endangered genus” published in PhytoKeys 208: 1–102 (2022). Phytotaxa 612(2): 159-200. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.612.2.4
Martínez-Domínguez, Lilí, Nicolalde-Morejón, Fernando, Vergara-Silva, Francisco and Stevenson, Dennis Wm. (2022a). A new Mexican Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae) species with notes on reproductive phenology. Nordic Journal of Botany 2022(1): e03348. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.03348
Martínez-Domínguez, Lilí, Nicolalde-Morejón, Fernando, Vergara-Silva, Francisco and Stevenson, Dennis Wm. (2022b). Monograph of Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae, Cycadales): An endangered genus. PhytoKeys 208: 1-102. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.208.80382