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Pritchardia hardyi (Makaleha Pritchardia)

Synonyms: Pritchardia weissichiana

Wikipedia Abstract

Pritchardia hardy, the Makaleha pritchardia, is a species of palm tree that is endemic to moist forests on the island of KauaŹ»i at elevations below 2,000 feet (610 m). The trunk of this fast-growing species reaches a height of 80 feet (24 m), with a diameter of 1 foot (0.30 m). Its leaves are 3 feet (0.91 m) in length. In 1998 only 30 individuals remained in the wild along a single trail on Kauai. This is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Pritchardia hardyi

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Pritchardia hardyi

Attributes

Fruit Conspicuous [1]  No
Height [1]  33 feet (10 m)
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Tree

Predators

Colobopyga pritchardiae[3]

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
2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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