Pseudophoenix ekmanii Burret (1929:19)
Dominican cherry palm, cacheo, cacheo de Oviedo
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered [by implication]
Was considered "Endangered or possibly Extinct" by (Lucas & Synge, 1978:423) who reported the Isla Beata/Island Beata population as unconfirmed. It is known to be extant today (Johnson, 1998; Zona, 2002; Visscher et al., 2020).
Distribution & Habitat
Dominican Republic (Barahona Peninsula, Island Beata)
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: Oviedo's Cherry Palm tree (Pseudophoenix ekmanii) forest in Jaragua National Park near Oviedo, Dominican Republic, taken in 2007. Photo: Yolanda M. León (released into the public domain). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
References
Original scientific description:
Burret, M. (1929). Palmae Cubenses et Domingensesa Cl. E. L. Ekman 1914–1923 lectae. Sv. Vet-akad.Handl. ser. III. 6(7): 1-28 [19-20, t. 3A].
Other references:
Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. and Strong, M. T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
Govaerts, R. and Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Henderson, Andrew, Galeano, Gloria and Bernal, Rodrigo. (1995). Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Johnson, D. (1998). Pseudophoenix ekmanii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T38659A10142264. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T38659A10142264.en. Accessed on 16 March 2025.
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 423-424]
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 16 March 2025]
Read, R. W. (1968). A study of Pseudophoenix (Palmae). Gentes Herb. 10 (2): 201-205.
Visscher, A. M., Castillo‐Lorenzo, E., Toorop, P. E., Junio da Silva, L., Yeo, M. and Pritchard, H. W. (2020). Pseudophoenix ekmanii (Arecaceae) seeds at suboptimal temperature show reduced imbibition rates and enhanced expression of genes related to germination inhibition. Plant Biology 22(6): 1041-1051. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/plb.13156
Zona, Scott. (2002). A Revision of Pseudophoenix. Palms 46(1): 19-38.