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Pseudophoenix ekmanii (Dominican Cherry palm)

Wikipedia Abstract

Pseudophoenix ekmanii (Cacheo, Cacheo de Oviedo, Dominican Cherry palm ) is a palm species endemic to the Barahona Peninsula and Isla Beata in the Dominican Republic. It is a small tree, four to six metres tall, with pinnately compound leaves and solitary, swollen stems. The fruit are reddish with a diameter of about 2 centimetres in diameter.
View Wikipedia Record: Pseudophoenix ekmanii

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Pseudophoenix ekmanii

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Height [2]  20 feet (6 m)
Fruit Color [2]  Red

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kissling, 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
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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