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Fan palm as a descriptive term can refer to any of several different kinds of palms (

Arecaceae The Arecaceae () is a family (biology), family of perennial plant, perennial, flowering plants in the Monocotyledon, monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbing palm, climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly k ...

) in various

genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...

with leaves that are palmately lobed (rather than

pinnate Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common axis. Pinnation occurs in biological morphology, in crystals, such as some forms of ice or metal crystals, and ...

ly compound). Most are members of the

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...

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, ...

, though a few genera in subfamily

Calamoideae Calamoideae is a subfamily of flowering plant in the palm family found throughout Central America, South America, Africa, India, China, Southeast Asia and Australia. It is represented by 21 genera - containing nearly a quarter of all species i ...

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Mauritia ''Mauritia'' is a genus of fan palms which is native to northern South America and to the Island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. Only two species are currently accepted. References

Mauritia, Trees of South America Trees of Trinidad ...

'', '' Mauritiella'' and ''

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 agr ...

'') also have palmate leaves. Fan palm genera include: * ''

Bismarckia ''Bismarckia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family with ''Bismarckia nobilis'' being the only species in the genus and is endemic to western and northern Madagascar, where it grows in open grassland. ''Bismarckia nobilis' ...

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Borassus ''Borassus'' (palmyra palm) is a genus of five species of fan palms, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Papua New Guinea. Description These massive palms can grow up to high and have robust trunks with distinct leaf scars; in so ...

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Coccothrinax ''Coccothrinax'' is a genus of palms in the family (biology), family Arecaceae. There are more than 50 species described in the genus, plus many Synonym (taxonomy), synonyms and subspecies. A new species (''Coccothrinax spirituana'') was describe ...

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Copernicia ''Copernicia'' is a genus of Arecaceae, palms native to South America and the Greater Antilles. Of the known species and nothospecies (Hybrid (biology), hybrids), 22 of the 27 are endemic to Cuba. They are List of Arecaceae genera#Tribe Corypheae ...

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Hyphaene ''Hyphaene'' is a genus of palms native to Africa, Madagascar, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay ...

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Licuala ''Licuala'' is a genus of palms, in the tribe Trachycarpeae, commonly found in tropical forests of southern China, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, New Guinea and the western Pacific Ocean islands. Description and uses ''Licuala'' spp. are fa ...

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Pritchardia The genus ''Pritchardia'' (family Arecaceae) consists of between 24 and 40 species of fan palms (subfamily Coryphoideae) found on tropical Pacific Ocean Pacific Islands, islands in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuamotus, and most diversely in Hawaiian ...

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Rhapidophyllum ''Rhapidophyllum hystrix'', the needle palm, is a palm native to coastal margins of the subtropical eastern Gulf and south Atlantic states of the United States. Populations can be found from coastal southeast South Carolina, southward to Florida ...

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Rhapis ''Rhapis'' is a genus of about 10 species of small Arecaceae, palms native to southeastern Asia from southern Japan and southern China south to Sumatra. The species are commonly known as lady palms. They are List of Arecaceae genera#Tribe Trach ...

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Sabal ''Sabal'' is a genus of New World palms (or fan-palms). Currently, there are 17 recognized species of ''Sabal'', including one hybrid species. Distribution The species are native to the subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, from ...

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Thrinax ''Thrinax'' is a genus in the palm family, native to the Caribbean. It is closely related to the genera '' Coccothrinax'', '' Hemithrinax'' and '' Zombia''. Flowers are small, bisexual and are borne on small stalks. Taxonomy In the first edit ...

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Trachycarpus ''Trachycarpus'' is a genus of ten species of Arecaceae, palms native to Asia, from the Himalaya east to eastern China. They are fan palms (subfamily Coryphoideae), with the leaf, leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerou ...

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Trithrinax ''Trithrinax'' is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Coryphoideae of the family Arecaceae. The name is derived from ancient Greek, where ''tri'' means three, and ''thrinax'' trident. It was named in 1837 by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Ma ...

'' Fan palm can also be used as part of the common name of particular genera or

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

. Among the palms commonly known as fan palms are: * ''

Chamaerops humilis ''Chamaerops'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae. It contains only one species, ''Chamaerops humilis'', variously called European fan palm or the Mediterranean dwarf palm. It is one of the most cold-hardy palms and is use ...

'' (European fan palm) * ''

Hyphaene petersiana ''Hyphaene petersiana'', the real fan palm or makalani palm, is a palm tree native to the subtropical, low-lying regions of south central Africa. Range and habitat It is found in Burundi, Rwanda, the DRC, Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Za ...

'' (Real fan palm) * ''

Livistona ''Livistona'' is a genus of palms, the botanical family Arecaceae, native to southeastern and eastern Asia, Australasia, and the Horn of Africa. They are fan palms, the leaves with an armed petiole terminating in a rounded, costapalmate fan ...

'' (Chinese fan palm and others) * ''

Washingtonia ''Washingtonia'' is a genus of palms, native to the southwestern United States (in southern California, and southwest Arizona) and northwest Mexico (in Baja California and Sonora). Both ''Washingtonia'' species are commonly cultivated across th ...

'' (California fan palm, Mexican fan palm) * ''

Latania ''Latania'', commonly known as latan palm or latania palm, is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae, palm tree family (biology), family, native to the Mascarene Islands in the western Indian Ocean. Species The genus contains three species ...

'' (Indian Ocean fan palms) The

travellers palm ''Ravenala'' is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants. Classically, the genus was considered to include a single species, ''Ravenala madagascariensis'' from Madagascar. Taxonomy Species of the genus ''Ravenala'' are not true palms (famil ...

(''Ravenala madagascariensis''), ''

Phenakospermum ''Phenakospermum'' is a monotypic genus in the family Strelitziaceae. Only one species is recognized, ''Phenakospermum guyannense'', native to Suriname, French Guiana and the eastern Amazon River basin. This plant grows to over in height but ca ...

'' (''P. guyannense''), white bird of paradise (''Strelitzia nicolai''), and New Guinea fan palm (''Cordyline fruticosa'') are sometimes called fan palms, because of their leaves' distinctive shape; however none are members of the palm family (Arecaceae).

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