[2] The seeds are consumable when prepared correctly and were an important resource to people of the region, but the plant is otherwise toxic to many species.

[5] The similar but differently pronounced word djeeri (recorded as Dji-ri-ji 'Zamia' by Symons[6]) is a name for Macrozamia in the Nyungar language.

[2] The species is found in coastal heath on sand in which jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) is absent, restricted in range to the eastern Recherche section of the Esperance Plains bioregion.

This seeds were placed in a depression lined with leaf bases of the plant paalaq, Xanthorrhoea platyphylla, another crucial resource in the local culture.

The distribution of the plant has been correlated to sites of long term human habitation, close to lakes or springs, and freshwater points at granitic outcrops of the kwongan, although the intervention of other consumers, birds and mammals, complicates a postulate that inadvertent or intentional cultivation is the primary factor in seed dispersal.