Desmoncus
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| 1863 Illustration from Naturalist on the River Amazons | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Subfamily: | Arecoideae |
| Tribe: | Cocoeae |
| Genus: | Desmoncus Mart. |
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Desmoncus is a genus of spiny palms native to the Neotropics. The genus extends from Mexico in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south, with two species present in the southeastern Caribbean (Trinidad and the Windward Islands).[1][2][3]
- Desmoncus chinantlensis Liebm. ex Mart. - southern Mexico and Central America (Veracruz to Nicaragua)
- Desmoncus cirrhifer A.H.Gentry & Zardini - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
- Desmoncus costaricensis (Kuntze) Burret - Costa Rica
- Desmoncus giganteus A.J.Hend. - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, western Brazil
- Desmoncus horridus Splitg. ex Mart. - Trinidad, Venezuela, the Guianas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Desmoncus interjectus A.J.Hend. - Colombia
- Desmoncus kunarius de Nevers ex A.J.Hend. - Panama
- Desmoncus latisectus Burret - Bolivia
- Desmoncus leptoclonos Drude - Paraguay, Brazil
- Desmoncus loretanus A.J.Hend. - Loreto region of Peru
- Desmoncus madrensis A.J.Hend. - Peru
- Desmoncus mitis Mart. - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia
- Desmoncus moorei A.J.Hend. - Nicaragua, Costa Rica
- Desmoncus myriacanthos Dugand. - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
- Desmoncus obovoideus A.J.Hend. - Panama
- Desmoncus orthacanthos Mart. - eastern Brazil
- Desmoncus osensis A.J.Hend. - Costa Rica
- Desmoncus parvulus L.H.Bailey - Venezuela, Colombia, northwestern Brazil, the Guianas
- Desmoncus polyacanthos Mart. - Trinidad, Windward Islands, Venezuela, the Guianas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Desmoncus prunifer Poepp. ex Mart. - Loreto region of Peru
- Desmoncus pumilus Trail. - Colombia, northwestern Brazil
- Desmoncus setosus Mart. - Colombia, northwestern Brazil
- Desmoncus stans Grayum & Nevers - Costa Rica
- Desmoncus vacivus L.H.Bailey - Colombia, northwestern Brazil, Peru
References
- "Desmoncus Mart., Hist. Nat. Palm. 2: 84 (1824)". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius: The Book of Palms/Das Buch der Palmen/Le livre des palmiers, introduced by the editor H. Walter Lack, Taschen Verlag, Köln, Germany 2010 ISBN 978-3-8365-1779-9
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ↑ Henderson, A. (2011). A revision of Desmoncus (Arecaceae). Phytotaxa 35: 1-88.
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