Pritchardia
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| Pritchardia sp. flowers and fruit on two pendulous stalks | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Subfamily: | Coryphoideae |
| Tribe: | Corypheae |
| Subtribe: | Livistoninae |
| Genus: | Pritchardia Seem. & H.Wendl.[1] |
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The genus Pritchardia (Family Arecaceae) consists of between 24-40 species of fan palms (tribe Corypheae) found on tropical Pacific Ocean islands in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuamotus, and Hawaii. The generic name honours William Thomas Pritchard (1829-1907), a British consul at Fiji.[2]
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[edit] Description
These palms vary in height, ranging from 20 to 130 ft (6.1 to 40 m).[3] The leaves are fan-shaped (costapalmate) and the trunk columnar, naked, smooth or fibrous, longitudinally grooved, and obscurely ringed by leaf scars. The flowers and subsequent fruit are borne in a terminal cluster with simple or compound branches of an arcuate or pendulous inflorescence that (in some species) is longer than the leaves.
[edit] Species
There are 29 species, of which 19 are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, with the remainder on other island groups.
- Pritchardia affinis Becc. – Hawaiʻi Pritchardia[4] (Island of Hawaiʻi)
- Pritchardia arecina Becc. – Maui Pritchardia[4] (Maui, Hawaii)[3]
- Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii H.St.John (Niʻihau, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia beccariana Rock – Kilauea Pritchardia[4] (Island of Hawaiʻi)[3]
- Pritchardia flynnii
- Pritchardia forbesiana Rock – Mt. Eke Pritchardia[4] (Maui, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia glabrata Becc. & Rock (Maui, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia hardyi Rock – Makaleha Pritchardia[4] (Kauaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia hillebrandii (Kuntze) Becc.[4] (Native range uncertain, but believed to be Molokaʻi, Hawaii)[3]
- Pritchardia kaalae Rock – Waiʻanae Range Pritchardia[4] (Oʻahu, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia lanaiensis Becc. & Rock – Lānaʻi Pritchardia[4] (Lānaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia lanigera Becc. (Island of Hawaiʻi)
- Pritchardia limahuliensis H.St.John (Kauaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia lowreyana Rock – Molokaʻi Pritchardia[4] (Molokaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia maideniana (Unknown origin, possibly Fiji or Tonga)[3]
- Pritchardia martii (Gaud.) H.Wendl – Koʻolau Range pritchardia[4] (syn. P. gaudichaudii) (Oʻahu, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia minor Becc. – Alakaʻi Swamp Pritchardia[4] (Kauaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia mitiaroana Dransfield & Ehrhardt (Mitiaro, Cook Islands)[3]
- Pritchardia munroi Rock – Kamalo Pritchardia[4] (Molokaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia napaliensis H.St.John (Kauaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia pacifica Seem. & H.Wendl. (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa)
- Pritchardia pericularum
- Pritchardia perlmanii Gemmill (Kauaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia remota Becc. – Nihoa Pritchardia[4] (Nihoa, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia schattaueri Hodel – Giant Pritchardia (Island of Hawaiʻi)
- Pritchardia thurstonii F.Muell. & Drude (Fiji)
- Pritchardia viscosa Becc. – Stickybud Pritchardia[4] (Kauaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia vuylstekeana
- Pritchardia waialealeana R.W.Read (Kauaʻi, Hawaii)
- Pritchardia woodfordiana (Solomon Islands)
[edit] Formerly placed here
- Licuala grandis (hort. ex W. Bull) H.Wendl. (as P. grandis hort. ex W. Bull)
- Washingtonia filifera (Linden ex André) H.Wendl. (as P. filamentosa H.Wendl. ex Franceschi or P. filifera Linden ex André)[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Genus: Pritchardia Seem. & H. Wendl.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?9853. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
- ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. 3 M-Q. CRC Press. p. 2168. ISBN 9780849326776. http://books.google.com/books?id=kaN-hLL-3qEC&.
- ^ a b c d e f Riffle, Robert Lee; Paul Craft (2003). An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms. Timber Press. pp. 419–422. ISBN 9780881925586. http://books.google.com/books?id=rL3dHVJ2CZ8C&client=firefox-a.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Pritchardia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=42461. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
- ^ "GRIN Species Records of Pritchardia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9853. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
[edit] External links
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Data related to Pritchardia at Wikispecies
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