Biology:Prestoea
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Short description: Genus of palms
| Prestoea | |
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| Prestoea acuminata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Subfamily: | Arecoideae |
| Tribe: | Euterpeae |
| Genus: | Prestoea Hook.f.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Prestoea pubigera (Griseb. & H. Wendl.) Hook. f.
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| Diversity | |
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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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]
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
- ↑ "Prestoea Hook. f". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?9828. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Prestoea — The Plant List". http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Arecaceae/Prestoea/.
Wikidata ☰ Q138006 entry
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