''Clinostigma'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

in the

Arecaceae The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees ...

(palm) family, native to various islands in the western

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

. It contains the following species:Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. * '' Clinostigma carolinense'' (Becc.) H.E.Moore & Fosberg - Chuuk ( Truk) in

Micronesia Micronesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, consisting of about 2,000 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It has a close shared cultural history with three other island regions: the Philippines to the west, Polynesia to the east, and ...

* '' Clinostigma collegarum'' J.Dransf. -

Bismarck Archipelago The Bismarck Archipelago (, ) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about 50,000 square km. History The first inhabitants o ...

* '' Clinostigma gronophyllum'' H.E.Moore -

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita ...

* '' Clinostigma exorrhizum'' (H.Wendl.) Becc. -

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

* '' Clinostigma haerestigma'' H.E.Moore -

* '' Clinostigma harlandii'' Becc. -

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...

* '' Clinostigma onchorhynchum'' Becc. -

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

* ''

Clinostigma ponapense ''Clinostigma'' is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae (palm) family, native to various islands in the western Pacific Islands, Pacific. It contains the following species:Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-2 ...

'' (Becc.) H.E.Moore & Fosberg -

Pohnpei Pohnpei "upon (''pohn'') a stone altar (''pei'')" (formerly known as Ponape or Ascension, Proto-Chuukic-Pohnpeic: ''*Fawo ni pei)'' is an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group. It belongs to Pohnpei ...

* '' Clinostigma samoense'' H.Wendl. -

* ''

Clinostigma savoryanum ''Clinostigma savoryanum'', the Pacific beauty palm, arrack tree or noyashi apanese ノヤシ is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is endemic to Ogasawara-shoto (Bonin Islands) of Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , a ...

'' (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) H.E.Moore & Fosberg - Arrack Tree - Ogasawara-shoto (

Bonin Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...

) * '' Clinostigma warburgii'' Becc. -

References

Arecaceae genera Flora of Oceania Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Areceae-stub