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Euterpeinae
Euterpeinae is a palm tree subtribe in the tribe Areceae Areceae is a palm tree tribe in the family Arecaceae. Subtribes: *Archontophoenicinae * Arecinae *Basseliniinae *Carpoxylinae *Clinospermatinae *Dypsidinae * Linospadicinae *Oncospermatinae *Ptychospermatinae *Rhopalostylidinae *Verschaffeltiina ....A phylogenetic analysis of the Euterpeinae (Palmae; Arecoideae; Areceae) based on morphology and anatomy. Andrew Henderson. Brittonia, January 1999, Volume 51, Issue 1, pages 106-113, References External links Arecaceae subtribes {{Areceae-stub ...
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Euterpeinae
Euterpeinae is a palm tree subtribe in the tribe Areceae Areceae is a palm tree tribe in the family Arecaceae. Subtribes: *Archontophoenicinae * Arecinae *Basseliniinae *Carpoxylinae *Clinospermatinae *Dypsidinae * Linospadicinae *Oncospermatinae *Ptychospermatinae *Rhopalostylidinae *Verschaffeltiina ....A phylogenetic analysis of the Euterpeinae (Palmae; Arecoideae; Areceae) based on morphology and anatomy. Andrew Henderson. Brittonia, January 1999, Volume 51, Issue 1, pages 106-113, References External links Arecaceae subtribes {{Areceae-stub ...
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Areceae
Areceae is a palm tree tribe in the family Arecaceae. Subtribes: *Archontophoenicinae * Arecinae *Basseliniinae *Carpoxylinae *Clinospermatinae *Dypsidinae * Linospadicinae *Oncospermatinae *Ptychospermatinae *Rhopalostylidinae *Verschaffeltiinae Genera not assigned to subtribes: *'' Bentinckia'' *''Clinostigma'' *''Cyrtostachys'' *''Dictyosperma'' *''Dransfieldia'' *''Heterospathe'' *''Hydriastele'' *''Iguanura'' *''Loxococcus'' *''Rhopaloblaste'' See also * List of Arecaceae genera This is a list of all the genus, genera in the botanical family Arecaceae, the palm family, based on Baker & Dransfield (2016), which is a revised listing of genera given in the 2008 edition of ''Genera Palmarum''. Taxonomy This is a list of al ... References External links Monocot tribes {{Areceae-stub ...
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August Grisebach
August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach () was a German botany, botanist and phytogeography, phytogeographer. He was born in Hannover on 17 April 1814 and died in Göttingen on 9 May 1879. Biography Grisebach studied at the Lyceum in Hanover, the cloister-school at Ilfeld, and the University of Göttingen. He graduated in medicine from the University of Berlin (other), University of Berlin in 1836. He undertook expeditions to Provence, Turkey, the Balkans, and Norway. In 1837 he became associate professor and in 1847 full professor at the medical faculty in Göttingen and was named director of Old Botanical Garden of Göttingen University, the botanical garden there in 1875. While his main fields of interest were phytogeography and systematics, especially the Gentianaceae and Malpighiaceae, he considered his ''Flora of the British West Indian Islands'' his most important work. Much of his collection, especially the Type (biology), types of species described by him, are housed ...
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Euterpe (plant)
''Euterpe'' is a genus of palm trees, containing eight species that are native to Central America and the Yucatan, the West Indies, and South America, from Belize and the Windward Islands southward to Brazil, Peru and Argentina. These palms grow mainly in swamps and floodplains. The genus is named after the muse Euterpe of Greek mythology. ''Euterpe'' are tall, slender palms growing to , with pinnate leaves up to long, and a stem only about in diameter. Many of the palms that were once in the genus ''Euterpe'' have been reclassified into the genus ''Prestoea''. The fruit is small, but is produced in great quantity upon branched spadices, which are thrown out horizontally beneath the crown of leaves. It consists of a hard seed, with a very thin covering of a firm pulp or flesh. The name ''açaí palm'' usually refers to ''Euterpe oleracea'', but various other species of ''Euterpe'' are cultivated commercially under that name. Uses A beverage called açaí, much used at Par ...
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Hyospathe
''Hyospathe'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae, native to South America and Central America. It contains the following species:Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. References

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Neonicholsonia
''Neonicholsonia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family native to Central America (Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama).Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The sole species is ''Neonicholsonia watsonii''. The genus and species names honor George Nicholson, a former curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and his successor William Watson.Riffle, Robert L. and Craft, Paul (2003) ''An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms''. Portland: Timber Press. / Description The trunk is solitary and acaulescent or barely emergent, producing 1.5 m leaves, pinnately cleft, with a gentle arch. The leaves are carried on short petioles, the leaflets grow to 30 cm, elliptical, and colored emerald green, and are widely and regularly arranged along the rachis. The inflorescence is a solitary, interfoliar spike with a long, slender peduncle, carrying male and fe ...
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Oenocarpus
''Oenocarpus'' is a genus of pinnate-leaved palms (Arecaceae) native to Trinidad, southern Central and tropical South America. (2004): World Checklist of Arecaceae &ndash''Oenocarpus'' The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2008-DEC-24. With nine species and one natural hybrid, the genus is distributed from Costa Rica and Trinidad in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south. Common names in their native range are ''bacaba'' in Brazil, and ''palma milpesos'' (or just ''milpesos'') in Spanish-speaking countries. These terms may also refer to the best-known member of this genus, '' O. bacaba'', but more precise common names exist for that species. The fruit of ''Oenocarpus'' palms are food for various animals, such as the green aracari ('' Pteroglossus viridis'') for which ''O. bacaba'' fruit are a mainstay food. They are also locally eaten by humans, and these palms are also used in folk medicine. Their wood is useful for handicraft and the fruits ...
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Prestoea
''Prestoea'' is a genus of palms native to the Caribbean, Central and South America. Its range extends from Nicaragua and the Greater Antilles in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south. * ''Prestoea acuminata'' (Willd.) H.E.Moore - Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama), West Indies, northwestern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia) * '' Prestoea carderi'' (W.Bull) Hook.f. - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru * '' Prestoea decurrens'' H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Prestoea ensiformis'' (Ruiz & Pav.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Prestoea longipetiolata'' (Oerst.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela * ''Prestoea montana'' (Graham Graham and Graeme may refer to: People * Graham (given name), an English-language given name * Graham (surname), an English-language surname * Graeme (surname), an English-language surname * Graham (musician) (born 197 ...
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