Cycas campestris
A cycad of the hot lowland savanna around Port Moresby in south-eastern Papua New Guinea, growing in open grassland and eucalypt woodland that burns in the dry season. It wants full sun, constant warmth and a free-draining soil that dries out between waterings.
Where it grows wild
Open savanna grassland and light eucalypt woodland on low hills, a fire-prone habitat typical of the Port Moresby dry belt; this is inferred from the record locations and the general ecology of New Guinea savanna Cycas.
Recorded at 1–100 m (median 21 m); the main climate cells sit at 170–460 m, so temperatures are adjusted down to the sites.
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