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Roystonea regia (royal palm)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Roystonea regia, commonly known as the Cuban royal palm, Florida royal palm, or simply the royal palm is a species of palm which is native to southern Florida, Mexico and parts of Central America and the Caribbean. A large and attractive palm, it has been planted throughout the tropics and subtropics as an ornamental tree. Although it is sometimes called R. elata, the conserved name R. regia is now the correct name for the species. Populations in Cuba and Florida were long seen as separate species, but are now considered to belong to a single species.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  No
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Tree
Height [2]  98 feet (30 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Biscayne National Park II 11085 Florida, United States
Ciénaga de Zapata National Park 1606900 Cuba  
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Pico Mogote Ecological Reserve II 3698 Cuba  
Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve II 4859 Cuba  

Emblem of

Cuba

Predators

Consumers

Shelter for 
Cynopterus sphinx (greater short-nosed fruit bat)[10]

Range Map

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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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
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Phyllonycteris poeyi (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), CARLOS A. MANCINA, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(852):41–48 (2010)
♦ 9Xylastodoris luteolus Barber (Insecta: Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae), T. J. Weissling and F. W. Howard, and Alan W. Meerow, University of Florida, July 1999. Latest revision: November 2015
♦ 10Cynopterus sphinx, Jay F. Storz and Thomas H. Kunz, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 613, pp. 1-8 (1999)
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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