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Arecales (Palms)

 

Family: Arecaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Beccariophoenix madagascariensis
Jum. & H.Perrier (1915) Coastal beccariophoenix (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Butia leptospatha (Burret) Noblick (2006) - (rediscovered) Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil & Paraguay Rediscovered Access
             
Calamus harmandii Pierre ex Becc. (1902) - (rediscovered) Laos Rediscovered Access
             
Calamus nicobaricus Becc. (1892) - ? India Possibly Extinct  (in the Wild) or Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Calospatha confusa Furtado (1951) - ? Malaysia Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Carpoxylon macrospermum H. A. Wendl. & Drude (1875) Carpoxylon palm (rediscovered) Aneityum (=Anatom), Vanuatu Rediscovered Access
             
Chamaedorea donnell-smithii Dammer (1905) - ? Central America Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Chamaedorea minima
Hodel (1991)
- ? Central or South America Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Chrysalidocarpus acuminum Jum. (1922) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Chrysalidocarpus ankaizinensis Jum. (1922) - ? Madagascar Extinct Access
             
Chrysalidocarpus canescens Jum. & H.Perrier (1913) - 1913 Madagascar Extinct Access
             
Corypha taliera Roxb. (1820) Tali palm, Tara palm (rediscovered) Bangladesh, India & Myanmar Extinct in the Wild or Possibly rediscovered in the Wild Access
             
Cryosophila williamsii P.H.Allen (1953) Lago Yojoa palm, Root-spine palm, Mojarilla, Palmiche ? Honduras Erroneously listed as Extinct in the Wild Access
             
Dypsis acaulis
J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Masoala Peninsula (eastern), Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis ambanjae Beentje (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis anovensis J.Dransf. (1995) - ? Madagascar Invalid (nomen. illeg., nomen. superfl.) Access
             
Dypsis basilonga (Jum. & H.Perrier) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - ? Madagascar Extinct or Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis bernieriana
(Baill.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995)
- ? Madagascar Extinct or Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis betamponensis (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis bosseri J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis brittiana
Rakotoarin. (2009) - 2005 northeastern Madagascar Missing Access
             
Dypsis canaliculata (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis carlsmithii J.Dransf. & Marcus (2002) - (rediscovered) eastern Madagascar Rediscovered in the wild Access
             
Dypsis ceracea (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) Lafaza (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis commersoniana (Baill.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - ? Madagascar Missing or Extinct Access
             
Dypsis corniculata (Becc.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered? Access
             
Dypsis curtisii Baker (1887) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered? Access
             
Dypsis digitata (Becc.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered? Access
             
Dypsis furcata J.Dransf. (1995) - ? Madagascar Extinct or Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis henrici J.Dransf., Beentje & Govaerts (2006) - 1928 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Dypsis heterophylla Baker (1887) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered? Access
             
Dypsis hirtula Mart. (1838) - ? Madagascar Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Dypsis integra (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered? Access
             
Dypsis lanuginosa J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis ligulata (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - ? Madagascar Extinct Access
             
Dypsis linearis Jum. (1918) - ? Madagascar Extinct or Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis longipes Jum. (1918) - ? Madagascar Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Dypsis lucens (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - 1912 Madagascar Extinct Access
             
Dypsis mangorensis (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered? Access
             
Dypsis masoalensis Jum. (1918) - ? Madagascar Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Dypsis monostachya Jum. (1918) - 1923 Madagascar Extinct Access
             
Dypsis occidentalis (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - ? Madagascar Extinct or Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis pervillei (Baill.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - ? Madagascar Extinct or Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis plurisecta Jum. (1918) - 1919 Madagascar Missing or Extinct Access
             
Dypsis pulchella J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis remotiflora J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis rivularis (Jum. & H.Perrier) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered? Access
             
Dypsis sahanofensis (Jum. & H.Perrier) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered? Access
             
Dypsis sambiranensis (Jum. & H.Perrier) Jum. (1933) - ? Madagascar Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Dypsis soanieranae Beentje (1995) - 1938 Madagascar Extinct Access
             
Dypsis tanalensis (Jum. & H.Perrier) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995) - (rediscovered) Madagascar Rediscovered Access
             
Dypsis thouarsiana Baill. (1894) - mid-1800's Ile Sainte Marie, Madagascar Missing or Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Eremospatha barendii Sunderl. (2002) Rattan, Rattan palm 2012 Cameroon Missing Access
             
Hedyscepe sp. nov. 'Norfolk Island' - - late Holocene Norfolk Island, Australia Extinct Access
             
Hemithrinax ekmaniana Burret (1929) - (rediscovered) Cuba Rediscovered Access
             
Hyophorbe amaricaulis Mart. (1849) - ? Mauritius Extinct in the wild Access
             
Medemia argun (Mart.) Württemb. ex H.Wendl. (1881) Argun palm (rediscovered) Egypt & Sudan Rediscovered Access
             
Neodypsis compactus Jum. (1933) - ? Madagascar Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Neophloga littoralis Jum. (1929 "1928") - ? Madagascar Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Neophloga majorana Becc. (1906) - ? Madagascar Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Neophloga pygmaea Pic.Serm. (1955) - ? Madagascar Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Orania regalis Zipp. (1829) Fai (Matbat), Kabet (Matbat), Wowi (Wandama) (rediscovered) New Guinea Rediscovered Access
             
Paschalococos disperta Dransfield (1991) Rapa Nui palm, Easter Island palm c.1650? Easter Island (=Rapa Nui) Extinct Access
             

Pelagodoxa henryana

Becc. (1917) - ? Nuku Hiva, Marquesas, French Polynesia (?) Extinct in the wild Access
             
Phloga gracilis (Jum.) H.Perrier (1945) - ? Madagascar Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Pinanga sp. nov. 'Fiji' - - <5000 yrcalBP Vanua Levu & Viti Levu, Fiji Extinct Access
             
Pritchardia elliptica
Rock & Caum (1930) - pre-1992 Kumoa Valley, Lanai, Hawaiian Islands, USA Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Pritchardia macrocarpa Linden (1879) - ? O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Pritchardia montis-kea Rock (1921) - ? Hawaiian Islands, USA Invalid (synonym) Access
             

Pritchardia pacifica

Seem. & H.Wendl. (1862) Piu, Niu pui, Niu sakiki, Viu, Fiji fan palm ? ʻEua & Vavaʻu, Tonga Extinct in the wild Access
             

Pritchardia pericularum

G.Nicholson (1886) - ? Tuamotu Archipelago (?) Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Pritchardia tahuatana Butaud & Hodel (2017) - ? Fatuiva & Tahuata (& Nuku Hiva?), Marquesas Islands Extinct in the wild Access
             

Pritchardia vuylstekeana

H.Wendl. (1883) - ? Tuamotu Archipelago (?) Extinct in the wild Access
             
Pritchardia sp. nov. ''Atiu' - - subfossil 'Atiu, Cook Islands Extinct if distinct Access
             
Pritchardia sp. nov. 'Laysan' - Laysan fan palm 1891 Laysan, Hawaiian Islands, USA Extinct if distinct Access
             
Pritchardia sp. nov. 'Mangaia' - - subfossil Mangaia, Cook Islands Extinct if distinct Access
             

Pritchardia sp. nov. 'Moorea'

- - ? Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia Extinct if distinct Access
             
Pritchardia sp. nov. 'Rimatara' - - ? Rimatara, Austral Islands, French Polynesia Extinct if distinct Access
             

Pritchardia sp. nov. 'Tahiti'

- - ? Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia Extinct if distinct Access
             
Pritchardia sp. nov. 'Tubuai' - - ? Tubuai, Austral Islands, French Polynesia Extinct Access
             
Ravenea moorei J.Dransf. & N.W.Uhl (1986) - (rediscovered) Grande Comore (=Ngazidja =Njazidja), Comoros Islands Rediscovered in the wild Access
             
Roystonea stellata León (1943) - 1939 Yagruma Terrace, Maisí region, Cuba Extinct Access
             
Sabal miamiensis Zona (1985) Miami palmetto, Miami sabal palm ? Dade County, Florida Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Salacca lophospatha J.Dransf. & Mogea (1981) - ? Sabah, Malaysia Extinct Access
             
Saribus jeanneneyi (Becc.) C.D.Bacon & W.J.Baker (2011) - (rediscovered) Grande Terre, New Caledonia Rediscovered Access
             
Veitchia filifera
(H.Wendl.) H.E.Moore (1957) - (rediscovered) Taveuni & Vanua Levu, Fiji Rediscovered Access
             
Veitchia petiolata (Burret) H.E.Moore (1957) - 1986 Vanua Levu, Fiji Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Veitchia pickeringii (H.Wendl.) H.E.Moore (1957) - ? Fiji Invalid (synonym) Access

 

 

Family: Dasypogonaceae (4 genera; 20 species)

—No subordinate taxa

 

Appendix: Relocated taxa

Glassman, S. F. (1971). Rediscovery of Syagrus werdermannii. Fieldiana Botany 34(1): 1-10. [Brazil; holotype destroyed during WWII; species relocated with help of local knowledge]

 

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