Tags: Cycad.
The genus Bowenia includes two living and two fossil species of cycads in the family Zamiaceae sometimes placed on their own family Boweniaceae. They are 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.