Prestoea
| Prestoea | |
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| Prestoea acuminata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Subfamily: | Arecoideae |
| Tribe: | Euterpeae |
| Genus: | Prestoea Hook.f.[1] |
| Type species | |
(Griseb. & H. Wendl.) Hook. f.
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| Diversity | |
| See text | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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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.[2][3][4][5]
- Prestoea acuminata (Willd.) H.E.Moore - Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama), West Indies, northwestern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia)
- (W.Bull) Hook.f. - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
- H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
- (Ruiz & Pav.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
- (Oerst.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
- H.E.Moore - Panama, Colombia
- (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) Hook.f. - Venezuela, Trinidad
- (Burret) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador. Peru, Brazil
- Galeano - Antioquia region of Colombia
- Prestoea tenuiramosa (Dammer) H.E.Moore - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
References[]
- ^ "Prestoea Hook. f". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
- ^ "Prestoea — The Plant List". www.theplantlist.org. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
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- Prestoea
- Trees of the Caribbean
- Trees of Central America
- Trees of South America
- Arecaceae genera
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