Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Arecales > Arecaceae > Metroxylon > Metroxylon amicarum

Metroxylon amicarum (Caroline ivory nutpalm)

Synonyms: Coelococcus amicarum (homotypic); Coelococcus carolinensis; Metroxylon amicarum var. majus; Metroxylon carolinense; Sagus amicarum (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Metroxylon amicarum (amicarium Latin - 'of friends' also known as the Caroline ivory-nut palm) is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family, endemic to the Caroline Islands. It was named for the Friendly Islands, now Tonga, from where it was first thought to have descended. It is the only species in the Metroxylon genus which is not hapaxanthic.
View Wikipedia Record: Metroxylon amicarum

Attributes

Fruit Conspicuous [1]  No
Height [1]  108 feet (33 m)
Fruit Color [1]  Brown

Predators

Lepidosaphes micronesiensis[2]
Neosimmondsia esakii[2]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kissling, W. Daniel et al. (2019), Data from: PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database for palms worldwide, v4, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ts45225
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0