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Cycas circinalis Male and Female Plants

Cycas circinalis, also known as the queen sago, is a species of cycad known in the wild only from southern India. Cycas circinalis is the only gymnosperm species found among native Sri Lankan flora. Cycas circinalis is known to be endemic to the Indian subcontinent, restricted to the Western Ghats, in the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and the south of Maharashtra. It typically occurs in fairly dense, seasonally dry scrubby woodlands in hilly areas. Many trees in this habitat lose their leaves in the dry season, and C. circinalis is also facultatively deciduous in extremely dry times. It appears to be an adaptable species with colonies extending from rocky hill outcrops down to coastal habitats at sea level. It is locally abundant in several areas, although the habitat has been severely reduced and degraded. Good populations still exist in a number of national parks and forest reserves. The local people in Kerala do not practice cutting of stems for medicine as in Tamil Nadu. There are several very large populations along the coast in Kerala that have been integrated within local villages and left undisturbed.