南美苏铁（学名：Zamia pumila），分布在西印度群岛和古巴。南美苏铁是泽米铁科第一个被描述的物种，因此成为泽米铁科及泽米属的模式种。

南美苏铁多年生的植物，高可达5至6英尺（1.5-2.1米）。有光泽的深绿色羽状叶子长3英尺（0.9米），雌雄异株。它与泽米苏铁在很多方面都相似，但南美苏铁的叶稍窄于泽米苏铁。

Zamia pumila, or coontie, is a small, tough, woody cycad of the West Indies and Florida (United States). Zamia pumila was the first species described for the genus and hence is the type species for the genus Zamia and the family Zamiaceae.

This cycad contains reddish seed cones with a distinct acuminate tip. The leaves are 60–120 cm (2.0–3.9 ft) long, with 5-30 pairs of leaflets (pinnae). Each leaflet is linear to lanceolate or oblong-obovate, 8–25 cm long and 0.5–2 cm broad, with distinct teeth at the tip. They are often revolute, with prickly petioles. It is similar in many respects to Zamia furfuracea, but with slightly narrower leaflets, and to Zamia integrifolia, which differs in the more commonly entire (untoothed or only slightly so) leaflets.