Cycas zeylanica
Cycas zeylanica, common name maha-madu is a plant apparently at present endemic to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It was formerly also present in Sri Lanka, but a majority of the population there were destroyed by the tsunami of December 2004. A few trees are cited in Hanguranketha town Adikarigama area.
Cycas zeylanica is an unbranched shrub up to tall. Leaves are up to long, green, glossy, pinnately compound with up to 100 leaflets. Pollen-producing cones fusiform, microsporophylls up to long. Megasporophylls up to long, each with 2-5 ovules. Seeds flattened to ovoid, orange-brown.