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Prestoea

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Prestoea is a genus of palms native to the Caribbean, Central and South America. Its range extends from Nicaragua and the Greater Antilles in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south. ==Species== Prestoea acuminata (Willd.) H.E.Moore - Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama), West Indies, northwestern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia) Prestoea carderi (W.Bull) Hook.f. - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru Prestoea decurrens H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador Prestoea ensiformis (Ruiz & Pav.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Peru, Panama

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderArecales
  5. FamilyArecaceae
Native toBolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá
Observations recorded29,567

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
115
With media
152
Family
Arecaceae
Collections
US, USF, NHMUK, JBP, NY
Recorded in
Venezuela, Colombia, United States, Ecuador, Trinidad And Tobago, Dominica, Guatemala (?), Panama

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Q14080
Image
Prestoea montana.jpg
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taxon common name
山甘蓝椰属
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Prestoea
topic's main category
Category:Prestoea
Commons category
Prestoea
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Encyclopedic overview

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Prestoea is a genus of palms native to the Caribbean, Central and South America. Its range extends from Nicaragua and the Greater Antilles in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south. ==Species== Prestoea acuminata (Willd.) H.E.Moore - Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama), West Indies, northwestern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia) Prestoea carderi (W.Bull) Hook.f. - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru Prestoea decurrens H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador Prestoea ensiformis (Ruiz & Pav.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador Prestoea longipetiolata (Oerst.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela Prestoea montana (Graham) G.Nicholson; (Willd.) H.E. Moore - Greater and Lesser Antilles Prestoea pubens H.E.Moore - Panama, Colombia Prestoea pubigera (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) Hook.f. - Venezuela, Trinidad Prestoea schultzeana (Burret) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador. Peru, Brazil Prestoea simplicifolia Galeano - Antioquia region of Colombia Prestoea tenuiramosa (Dammer) H.E.Moore - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prestoea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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