Pritchardia affinis Becc. (1921:37)
Hawai`i pritchardia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of P. maideniana) (Hodel, 2007; POWO, 2026)
Previously considered Missing (Walter & Gillett, 1998:742; NatureServe, 2026).
Distribution & Habitat
Hawaii (=Big Island), Hawaiian Islands, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Beccari, O. and Rock, J. F. (1921). A monographic study of the genus Pritchardia. Mem. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 8: 1-77.
Other references:
Dowe, J. L. (2010). Australian palms: biogeography, ecology and systematics: 1-290. CSIRO Publishing.
Govaerts, R. and Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hodel, D. R. (1980). Notes on Pritchardia in Hawaii. Princeps 24: 65-81.
Hodel, D. R. (1982). Hal's last palms. Principes 26: 135-137.
Hodel, D. R. (2007). A review of the genus Pritchardia. Palms; Journal of the International Palm Society 51(Suppl.): 1-53.
Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
NatureServe. (2026). Pritchardia affinis: Hawai`i Pritchardia. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 22 August 2026]
POWO. (2026). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 22 August 2026]
Read, R. W. and Hodel, D. R. (1990). Arecaceae. Pp. 1360-1375 in: Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Sohmer, Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai`i. Special Publ. Bishop Mus., Honolulu 83: 1-1853.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2015). Technical Corrections for 54 Wildlife and Plant Species on the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants. Federal Register 80(120): 35860-35869.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2024). Technical corrections for seven species on the list of Endangered and Threatened wildlife and six species on the list of Endangered and Threatened Plants. Final rule; technical amendments. Federal Register 89(175): 73308-73311.
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.