Prestoea

<i>Prestoea</i>

Prestoea

Genus of palms

Prestoea is a genus of palms native to the Caribbean, Central and South America. Its range extends from Nicaragua and the Greater Antilles in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south.[2][3][4][5]

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Species

  • Prestoea acuminata (Willd.) H.E.Moore - Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama), West Indies, northwestern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia)
  • Prestoea carderi (W.Bull) Hook.f. - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
  • Prestoea decurrens H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
  • Prestoea ensiformis (Ruiz & Pav.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
  • Prestoea longipetiolata (Oerst.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
  • Prestoea montana (Graham) G.Nicholson; (Willd.) H.E. Moore - Greater and Lesser Antilles
  • Prestoea pubens H.E.Moore - Panama, Colombia
  • Prestoea pubigera (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) Hook.f. - Venezuela, Trinidad
  • Prestoea schultzeana (Burret) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador. Peru, Brazil
  • Prestoea simplicifolia Galeano - Antioquia region of Colombia
  • Prestoea tenuiramosa (Dammer) H.E.Moore - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil

References

  1. [1]
    "Prestoea Hook. f". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  2. [2]
    Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. [3]
    Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. [4]
    Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
  5. [5]
    "Prestoea — The Plant List". www.theplantlist.org. Retrieved 2019-05-08.


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