| Zamia wallisii | |
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| Zamia wallisii, Illustration. | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Cycadophyta |
| Class: | Cycadopsida |
| Order: | Cycadales |
| Family: | Zamiaceae |
| Genus: | Zamia |
| Species: | Z. wallisii |
| Binomial name | |
| Zamia wallisii Veitch ex A.Br. |
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Zamia wallisii is a species of plant in the Zamiaceae family. It is endemic to Colombia. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Zamia wallisii was described in 1875 by Alexander Braun from material collected by Gustav Wallis in Colombia. The species was collected once again in 1888 by Guillermo Kalbreyer and then not seen again for 100 years. Both the Wallis and Kalbreyer collections were lost and no type specimen was extant resulting in some doubt about the existence of the species until its rediscovery in the 1980s.[1]