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Coccothrinax argentea

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Wikipedia Abstract

Coccothrinax argentea is a palm which is endemic to Hispaniola. It is a medium-sized palm (growing about 10 m tall. Leaves are dark green above and silvery below. Like other Coccothrinax species, C. argentea is a fan palm. Very young leaves are eaten as a vegetable. It is also used medicinally by traditional healers to treat uterine fibroids and hot flashes. This species is frequently confused with Coccothrinax argentata.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  No
Height [2]  49 feet (15 m)

Consumers

Shelter for 
Cynopterus sphinx (greater short-nosed fruit bat)[3]

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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
♦ 3Cynopterus 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