| General Description | A very attractive small cycad with an underground trunk. |
| Landscape | Can be used as a small shrub or a large groundcover, and it does well as an indoor plant. |
| Propagation | Easily propagated from seed. |
| Cultivation | Grow in shade or full sun, but looks best when grown in some shade; needs a neutral, well drained sandy soil. |
| Notable Specimens | Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, Florida, United States of America. |
| Habitat | Found in wet lowlands, semi-evergreen forests to pine-oak forests in deep shade. |
| Bark/Stem Description | Subterranean, tuberous, up to 10 cm in diameter, continuous with a variously carrot-shaped root. |
| Leaf Description | Comes in two forms, one with green leaves and the other with bronze leaves up to 1 m long. Leaf has 15-30 pairs of papery thin, wide leaflets with very small indentations or teeth on the leaflets. |
| Fruit Description | Male cones: tan, ovoid to ovoid-cylindrical, 5-7 (8) cm long. Female cones: tan to brown, cylindrical to ovoid-cylindrical, 10-15 cm long. Seeds: orange-red to red, 1.3-1.8 cm long, and 0.5-0.8 cm wide. |
| Texture Description | All parts of the plant are poisonous to animals and humans. |
