Veitchia pickeringii (H.Wendl.) H.E.Moore (1957:534)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ptychosperma pickeringii H.Wendl. in Bonplandia (Hannover) 10: 194 (1862); Saguaster pickeringii (H.Wendl.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 735 (1891); Vitiphoenix pickeringii (H.Wendl.) Burret in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 24: 270 (1928); Veitchia pickeringii (H.Wendl.) H.E.Moore in Gentes Herbarum 8: 534 (1957)
Invalid (synonym of V. vitiensis) (Zona & Fuller, 1999:555; POWO, 2018 fide Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024)
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of V. vitiensis) (Zona & Fuller, 1999:555; POWO, 2018 fide Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024)
Distribution
Fiji
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Govaerts, R. and Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
POWO. (2018). Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.
POWO. (2024). Veitchia vitiensis (H.Wendl.) H.E.Moore. 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 February 2024]
Zona, Scott and Fuller, Dylan. (1999). A revision of Veitchia (Arecaceae—Arecoideae). Harvard Papers in Botany 4(2): 543-560. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41761590