Carpoxylon macrospermum H.Wendl. & Drude (1875:177)
Carpoxylon palm
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1850's (Dowe et al., 2016:31); 1859
Rediscovered in 1987 (Dowe, 1989)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Aneityum (=Anatom), Vanuatu
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wendland, H. and Drude, O. (1875). Palmae Australasicae. Linnaea 39: 153-238.
Other references:
Devoe, N. N. (1994). A preliminary update on the status of Carpoxylon macrospermum: an endangered palm from Vanuatu. Palms and Cycads 43: 12-17.
Dowe, John Leslie. (1988). The rediscovery of Carpoxylon macrospermum. Palms and Cycads 18: 6-9.
Dowe, John Leslie. (1989). The unexpected rediscovery of Carpoxylon macrospermum. Principes 33(2): 63-67.
Dowe, John Leslie. (1996). Uses of some indigenous Vanuatu palms. Principes 40: 93-102.
Dowe, John Leslie. (1998). Carpoxylon macrospermum. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 30 September 2013.
Dowe, John Leslie, Benzie, J. and Ballment, E. (1997). Ecology and genetics of Carpoxylon macrospermum H. Wendl. & Drude (Arecaceae), an endangered palm from Vanuatu. Biological Conservation 79: 205-216.
Dowe, John Leslie, Lovatt, Rosemary and Snajder, Nadia. (2016). Flowering of Carpoxylon macrospermum, a Critically Endangered Palm, in the Townsville Palmetum, Australia. Palms 60(1): 29-37.
Dowe, John Leslie and Uhl, N. W. (1989). Carpoxylon macrospermum. Principes 33: 68-73.
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Fry, K., Siwatibau, S. and Clarkin, C. (1997). Conservation of a rare palm species through enterprise developments, pp. 87-95. In: Miller, S. and Sim, J. (eds.). Sixth South Pacific Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, Volume 3. Conference Papers. South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Apia, Samoa.
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WCSP. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
Zona, S. (1995). Carpoxylon in the Natural History Museum London. Principes 39: 75, 76.
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