Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Arecales > Arecaceae > Coccothrinax > Coccothrinax barbadensisCoccothrinax barbadensis (Puerto Rico silver palm)Synonyms: Coccothrinax australis; Coccothrinax boxii; Coccothrinax discreta; Coccothrinax dussiana; Coccothrinax eggersiana; Coccothrinax eggersiana var. sanctae-crucis; Coccothrinax latifrons; Coccothrinax laxa; Coccothrinax martinicaensis; Coccothrinax martinicensis; Coccothrinax sabana; Coccothrinax sanctae-thomae; Coccothrinax sancti-thomae; Copernicia barbadensis; Thrinax barbadensis (homotypic); Thrinax parviflora (heterotypic); Thrinax radiata; Thringis latifrons; Thringis laxa Coccothrinax barbadensis (latanier, latanier balai) is a palm found in the Lesser Antilles (and Trinidad and Tobago. Like other members of the genus Coccothrinax, C. barbadensis is a fan palm. The leaves are widely used to thatch roofs. The species is found in Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Martinique, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago. Henderson and coauthors report that the species was probably present throughout the Lesser Antilles, but was extirpated on many of them. |
Fruit Conspicuous [1] | No | | Height [1] | 49 feet (15 m) |
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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 |
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
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