Acoelorraphe wrightii (Griseb. & H. Wendl.) H. Wendl. ex Becc.
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Public Records: 3
Specimens with Barcodes: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
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Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
Stems multiple, brown, to 7 m, covered in tardily deciduous leaf bases. Leaves: petiole strongly (rarely weakly) armed; hastula present on adaxial surface. Inflorescences exceeding leaves, appearing secund because of pendulous rachillae, 15--22 cm, orange in fruit. Fruits ripening from green through orange to black, globose, 7.5--8.5 mm diam. 2n = 36.
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N3 - Vulnerable
Copernicia wrightii Grisebach & H. Wendland in A. H. R. Grisebach, Cat. Pl. Cub., 220. 1866; Acoelorraphe arborescens (Sargent) Beccari; A. pinetorum Bartlett; Paurotis androsana O. F. Cook; P. arborescens (Sargent) O. F. Cook; P. wrightii (Grisebach & H. Wendland) Britton.
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure
Reasons: Scattered distribution in Caribbean, from Florida and Cuba to eastern Mexico and Central America; abundance unclear. Prime habitat is rapidly being developed, drained and otherwise degraded.
Isotype for Acoelorraphe pinetorum Bartlett
Catalog Number: US 1688122
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. H. Bartlett
Year Collected: 1931
Locality: N of aviation field, Belize, Central America
Microhabitat: Pine ridge
- Isotype: Bartlett, H. H. 1935. Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 461 (2): 33.
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Acoelorrhaphe is a genus of palms, comprising the single species Acoelorrhaphe wrightii (Paurotis palm, also known as the Everglades palm and Madiera palm).[2][3][4][5]
It is native to Central America, southeastern Mexico, the Caribbean, Colombia, the Bahamas, and extreme southern Florida where it grows in swamps and periodically flooded forests. It is a small to moderately tall palm that grows in clusters to 5–7 metres (16–23 ft), rarely 9 m (30 ft) tall, with slender stems less than 15 centimetres (5.9 in) diameter. The leaves are palmate (fan-shaped), with segments joined to each other for about half of their length, and are 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft) wide, light-green above, and silver underneath. The leaf petiole is 1–1.2 m (3.3–3.9 ft) long, and has orange, curved, sharp teeth along the edges. The flowers are minute, inconspicuous and greenish, with 6 stamens. The trunk is covered with fibrous matting. The fruit is pea-sized, starting orange and turning to black at maturity.[6][7]
The genus name is often cited as Acoelorraphe ,[6][8] a spelling error to be corrected under the provisions of the ICBN. The genus name is a combination of three Greek words meaning a- 'without', koilos 'hollow', and rhaphis 'needle', an allusion to the form of the fruit. The species is named after the American botanist Charles Wright[9]
Cultivation and uses[edit]
The Paurotis palm was formerly plentiful in Florida, but many plants were taken for the nursery trade. The palm is now protected in the wild by Florida law. Trees propagated from seed or by sawing apart the base of a cluster are available in nurseries. It is hardy in most of the Florida peninsula, and salt-tolerant.[10]
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- ^ H.A. Wendland Botanische Zeitung 37:148. 1879 Tpe:A. wrightii
- ^ a b World Checklist of Palms: Acoelorrhaphe
- ^ Germplasm Resources Information Network: Acoelorrhaphe wrightii
- ^ International Plant Names Index (IPNI): Acoelorrhaphe
- ^ Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida: Acoelorrhaphe wrightii
- ^ a b Flora of North America: genus account and species account
- ^ Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.
- ^ USDA Plants Profile: Acoelorraphe wrightii
- ^ Grisebach, August H. R. (1866) Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium
- ^ Bush, Charles S. and Morton, Julia F. (1969) Native Trees and Plants for Florida Landscaping (pp.11-12). Department of Agriculture - State of Florida.
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Petiole spines
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Fruit
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