Bowenia

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Bowenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Cycadophyta Class: Cycadopsida Order: Cycadales Family: Stangeriaceae Genus: Bowenia
Species
† Bowenia eocenica † Bowenia papillosa Bowenia serrulata Bowenia spectabilis

The genus Bowenia, includes two living and two fossil species of cycads in the family Stangeriaceae, and is 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.