Jump to content

Pritchardia limahuliensis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Tom.Reding (talk | contribs) at 13:32, 7 November 2016 (Fix Category:CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter: vauthors/veditors or enumerate multiple authors/editors/assessors; WP:GenFixes on using AWB). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Pritchardia limahuliensis
Specimen growing in the Limahuli Garden and Preserve.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
(unranked):
(unranked):
(unranked):
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
P. limahuliensis
Binomial name
Pritchardia limahuliensis
St John

Pritchardia limahuliensis, the Limahuli Valley pritchardia,[1] is a palm native to Hawaii. It is a rare species, only discovered in 1977 by staff of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in the Limahuli Garden and Preserve, Kauai, Hawaii, where it is now being conserved. It is threatened by introduced rats, which eat the seeds.

It is a medium-sized palm, growing to 10 m tall, with palmate (fan-shaped) leaves.

References

  1. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Pritchardia limahuliensis​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 14 October 2015.