The genus ''Pritchardia'' (family
Arecaceae) consists of between 24 and 40 species of fan palms (subfamily
Coryphoideae
The Coryphoideae is one of five subfamilies in the palm family, Arecaceae. It contains all of the genera with palmate leaves, excepting '' Mauritia'', ''Mauritiella'' and ''Lepidocaryum,'' all of subfamily Calamoideae, tribe Lepidocaryeae, s ...
) found on tropical
Pacific Ocean
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islands
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in
Fiji,
Samoa
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,
Tonga
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,
Tuamotus
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, and most diversely in
Hawaii
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.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref> The generic name honors William Thomas Pritchard (1829-1907), a British consul at Fiji.
Description
These palms vary in height, ranging from .inflorescence
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that (in some species) is longer than the leaves.
Species
There are 29 known species, of which 19 are endemic
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to the Hawaiian Islands, with the remainder on other island
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groups.
* '' Pritchardia affinis'' Becc. – Hawaii PritchardiaIsland of Hawaii
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)
* '' Pritchardia arecina'' Becc. – Maui PritchardiaNiihau
Niihau ( Hawaiian: ), anglicized as Niihau ( ), is the westernmost main and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaii. It is southwest of Kauaʻi across the Kaulakahi Channel. Its area is . Several intermittent playa lakes provide wetland ha ...
, Hawaii
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)
* ''Pritchardia beccariana
''Pritchardia beccariana'', the Kilauea pritchardia, or Beccari's loulu, is a species of palm tree in the genus '' Pritchardia'' that is endemic to wet forests on the eastern part of the island of Hawaii, near Hilo.
Description
This species re ...
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* Rock music, a genre of popular music
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– Kilauea PritchardiaOahu
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, Hawaii)
* '' Pritchardia lanaiensis'' Becc. & Rock – Lānai PritchardiaMitiaro
Mitiaro, the fourth island in the Cook Islands group, is of volcanic origin. Standing in water deep it is across at its widest point.
Geography
Mitiaro, also known as Nukuroa, is part of the Nga-Pu-Toru island group formerly, a volcano that bec ...
, Cook Islands
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)Pritchardia pacifica
''Pritchardia pacifica'', the Fiji fan palm, or piu, is a species of palm tree in the genus '' Pritchardia'' that is native to Tonga. It is also found on Fiji, Samoa, and the Marquesas however these populations are likely to be human introductio ...
'' Seem. & H.Wendl. ( Fiji, Tonga
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, Samoa
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)
* '' Pritchardia pericularum''
* '' Pritchardia perlmanii'' Gemmill (Kauai, Hawaii)
* ''Pritchardia remota
''Pritchardia remota'', the Nihoa pritchardia, Nihoa fan palm, or Loulu, is a species of palm endemic on the island of Nihoa, Hawaii, and later transplanted to the island of Laysan. It is a smaller tree than most other species of '' Pritchardia' ...
'' Becc. – Nihoa PritchardiaNihoa
Nihoa (; haw, Nīhoa ), also known as Bird Island or Moku Manu, is the tallest of ten islands and atolls in the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). The island is located at the southern end of the NWHI chain, southeast of ...
, Hawaii)
* '' Pritchardia schattaueri'' Hodel – Giant Pritchardia (Island of Hawaii)
* ''Pritchardia thurstonii
''Pritchardia thurstonii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.
It is endemic to Fiji, in particular the Lau Islands.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
It is sometimes known as the Thurston's palm or the Lau fan palm and is n ...
'' F.Muell. & Drude
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(Fiji)
* '' Pritchardia viscosa'' Becc. – Stickybud PritchardiaSolomon Islands
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)
Formerly placed here
* ''Licuala grandis
''Licuala grandis'', the ruffled fan palm, Vanuatu fan palm or Palas palm, is a species of palm tree in the family Arecaceae, native to Vanuatu, an island nation in the Pacific.
Synonyms
* ''Pritchardia grandis'' hort. ex W. Bull
References
M ...
'' (hort. ex W. Bull) H.Wendl. (as ''P. grandis'' hort. ex W. Bull) (Vanuatu)
* '' Washingtonia filifera'' (Linden ex André) H.Wendl. (as ''P. filamentosa'' H.Wendl. ex Franceschi or ''P. filifera'' Linden ex André)
See also
* Laysan fan palm
References
Kew Palms Checklist: ''Pritchardia''
External links
{{Taxonbar, from=Q311086
Arecaceae genera
Oceanian realm flora
Flora of the Solomon Islands (archipelago)