Bowenia

Cladus: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Cycadophyta
Classis: Cycadopsida
Ordo: Cycadales
Subordo: Zamiineae
Familia: Stangeriaceae
Subfamilia: Bowenioideae
Genus: Bowenia
Species: B. serrulata - B. spectabilis

Name

Bowenia Hook. ex Hook.f.
Type species: Bowenia spectabilis Hook. ex Hook.f.

Etymology

Commemorating Sir George F. Bowen (1821-1899), first governor of Queensland (1859-1868).

References

* Bot. Mag. 89 (1863), sub t. 5398
* Hill, K.D. Genus Bowenia http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/PlantNet/cycad/bowkey.html

The genus Bowenia, includes two living and two fossil species of cycads in the family Stangeriaceae, sometimes placed on their own family Boweniaceae. They are entirely restricted to Australia. The two living species occur in Queensland, where they grow in the warm, wet, tropical rainforests, on protected slopes and near streams, primarily in the lowlands.

The fossil species Bowenia eocenica is known from deposits in a coal mine in Victoria, Australia, and B. papillosa is known from deposits in New South Wales. Both fossils are of Eocene age, and consist of leaflet fragments.