The genus Bowenia includes two living and two fossil species of cycads in the family Stangeriaceae, sometimes placed in their own family Boweniaceae. They are entirely restricted to Australia.
Bowenia spectabilis in the Daintree Rainforest in northeast Queensland, Australia
Bowenia Lake Tinaroo form in sclerophyll woodland near Lake Tinaroo, Atherton Tableland, far north Queensland
Serrulate margin of the pinnae on a wild plant of Bowenia Lake Tinaroo form, at Lake Tinaroo, Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia
The Fremouw Formation is a Triassic-age rock formation in the Transantarctic Mountains of the Ross Dependency of Antarctica. It contains the oldest known fossils of tetrapods from Antarctica, includin
Cycads from the Fremouw Formation are similar to the living Bowenia from Australia