Coccothrinax barbadensis
| Coccothrinax barbadensis | |
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| In the Canary Islands | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Genus: | Coccothrinax |
| Species: | C. barbadensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Coccothrinax barbadensis | |
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Coccothrinax barbadensis (latanier, latanier balai)[2] is a palm native to Venezuela, the Lesser Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago.[1] Like other members of the genus Coccothrinax, C. barbadensis is a fan palm. The leaves are widely used to thatch roofs.
The species is native to Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago[2] and Venezuela (including the Venezuelan Antilles).[1] Henderson and coauthors report that the species was probably present throughout the Lesser Antilles, but was extirpated on many of them.[2]
In 2005, George Proctor (in Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong, 2005[3]) considered Coccothrinax alta to be a distinct species (based on its shorter, more slender trunk, fewer stamens and much smaller fruit, but Rafaël Govaerts[4] considered it a synonym of C. barbadensis.
References
- ^ a b c d "Coccothrinax barbadensis (Lodd. ex Mart.) Becc". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ a b c Henderson, Andrew; Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (1995). Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08537-1.
- ^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro; Mark T. Strong (2005). "Monocots and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands". Contributions of the United States National Herbarium. 52: 1–405.
- ^ "Coccothrinax alta". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2007-11-05.