Pritchardia
| Pritchardia | |
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| Pritchardia sp. flowers and fruit on two pendulous stalks | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Subfamily: | Coryphoideae |
| Tribe: | Corypheae |
| Subtribe: | Livistoninae |
| Genus: |
Pritchardia Seem. & H.Wendl. |
| Synonyms | |
The genus Pritchardia (Family Arecaceae) consists of between 24-40 species of fan palms (tribe Corypheae) found on tropical Pacific Ocean islands in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuamotus, and most diversely in Hawaii. The generic name honors William Thomas Pritchard (1829-1907), a British consul at Fiji.
These palms vary in height, ranging from 6 to 40 m (20 to 131 ft). The leaves are fan-shaped (costapalmate) and the trunk columnar, naked, smooth or fibrous, longitudinally grooved, and obscurely ringed by leaf scars. The flowers and subsequent fruit are borne in a terminal cluster with simple or compound branches of an arcuate or pendulous inflorescence that (in some species) is longer than the leaves.
There are 29 known species, of which 19 are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, with the remainder on other island groups.
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