Lepidocaryeae is a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...

of plants in the family Arecaceae. Subtribes and genera in the tribe are: *Subtribe

Ancistrophyllinae Ancistrophyllinae is a subtribe of plants in the family Arecaceae found in Africa. Genera in the subtribe are: *''Oncocalamus'' *'' Eremospatha'' *'' Laccosperma'' See also * List of Arecaceae genera This is a list of all the genera in ...

– Africa **''

Oncocalamus ''Oncocalamus'' is a monoecious genus of flowering plants in the palm family found in western Africa. The genus is the lone member of the Oncocalaminae; once placed with the vegetatively similar '' Eremospatha'' and '' Laccosperma'' in the Anc ...

'' – Central Africa **''

Eremospatha ''Eremospatha'' is a genus of climbing flowering plants in the palm family found in tropical Africa. These rattans are uncommon in cultivation and poorly understood by taxonomists;. Closely related to ''Laccosperma'', they differentiated by the ...

'' – Africa **''

Laccosperma ''Laccosperma'' is a clustering genus of flowering plant in the family palm found in tropical Africa. Poorly studied and rarely cultivated, they are closely related to the genus '' Eremospatha'' and with it form a tribe in the ''Calameae'' charac ...

'' – Africa *Subtribe Raphiinae **'' Raphia'' – Africa, Madagascar, parts of South America *Subtribe

Mauritiinae Mauritiinae is a subtribe of plants in the family Arecaceae found in northern South America. Genera in the subtribe are: *''Lepidocaryum'' *'' Mauritia'' *''Mauritiella'' See also * List of Arecaceae genera This is a list of all the gen ...

– northern South America **''

Lepidocaryum ''Lepidocaryum'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family from South America where the lone species, ''Lepidocaryum tenue'', is commonly called poktamui. Nine species names have been published, but palm taxonomists currently ag ...

'' – central Amazon basin **''

Mauritia ''Mauritia'' is a genus of fan palms which is native to northern South America and to the Island of Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern ...

'' – northern South America **''

Mauritiella ''Mauritiella'' is a dioecious genus of flowering plant in the palm family found in South America where it is commonly called buriti. It is named after the similar and closely related genus '' Mauritia''.Uhl, Natalie W. and Dransfield, John (198 ...

'' – northern South America

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