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{{Short description|Species of palm}}
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|image_alt = Coccothrinax barbadensis
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|genus = Coccothrinax
|species = barbadensis
|authority = (Lodd. ex [[Biography:Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius|Mart.]]) [[Biography:Odoardo Beccari|Becc.]]
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'''''Coccothrinax barbadensis''''' ('''latanier''', '''latanier balai''')<ref name = Henderson>{{cite book |last=Henderson |first=Andrew |last2=Galeano |first2=Gloria |author-link2=Gloria Galeano |last3=Bernal |first3=Rodrigo |author-link3=Rodrigo Bernal|title=Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas |year=1995 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey| isbn= 978-0-691-08537-1 }}</ref> is a [[Biology:Arecaceae|palm]] found in the Lesser Antilles (and Trinidad and Tobago).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wcsp.science.kew.org/namedetail.do?accepted_id=44384&repSynonym_id=203950&name_id=44384&status=true |title= ''Coccothrinax barbadensis''|access-date=2019-02-25 |website=  [[Organization:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]]: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families}}</ref> Like other members of the genus ''Coccothrinax'', ''C. barbadensis'' is a [[Biology:Fan palm|fan palm]]. The leaves are widely used to thatch roofs.

The species is found in Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, [[Earth:Dominica|Dominica]], Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Martinique, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.  Henderson and coauthors report that the species was probably present throughout the Lesser Antilles, but was extirpated on many of them.<ref name = Henderson/>

George Proctor (in Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong, 2005<ref name = Acevedo>{{cite journal | last = Acevedo-Rodríguez | first = Pedro |author2=Mark T. Strong | date = 2005 | title = Monocots and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands | journal = Contributions of the United States National Herbarium | volume = 52 | pages = 1–405 | author-link = Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez }}</ref>) considers ''[[Biology:Coccothrinax alta|Coccothrinax alta]]'' to be a distinct species (based on its shorter, more slender trunk, fewer [[Biology:Stamen|stamen]]s and much smaller fruit, but Rafaël Govaerts<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/nonacceptedRef.do?accepted_id=44375&repSynonym_id=203998&name_id=44375&status=true |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130802160355/http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/nonacceptedRef.do?accepted_id=44375&repSynonym_id=203998&name_id=44375&status=true |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-08-02 |title=''Coccothrinax alta'' |access-date=2007-11-05 |website=[[Organization:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]]: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families }}</ref> considers it a synonym of ''C. barbadensis''.

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