standleyanum on the Caribbean coast of Panama. mexicanum along the Caribbean coast from Mexico to Nicaragua, and A. confertum on the Caribbean coast of Panama and Costa Rica, A. aculeatum, occurs in the insular Caribbean, while four others are found in the wider Caribbean: Astrocaryum alatum on the Caribbean coast from Panama to Nicaragua, A. The Caribbean species has solitary stems, 8 to 20 metres (26 to 66 ft) tall. Īstrocaryum is a genus of spiny palms native to Mexico, Trinidad, Central and South America the sharp, flattened spines that cover the trunk can be up to 30 cm (12 inches) long. Aiphanes minima: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Barbados and Grenada.Aiphanes horrida: Trinidad (also tropical South America).horrida, in keeping with the nomenclature of the World checklist, the latter name is used.
Although many sources ( e.g., Henderson et al. Most of the 23 species of Aiphanes are found in the Andes two species occur in the Caribbean, including A. Caribbean species have solitary stems and are 3 to 18 metres (10 to 59 ft) tall. Acrocomia media: Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.Īiphanes is a genus of small to medium-sized spiny palms.Acrocomia crispa: Cuba until recently this species was considered to belong to a monotypic genus, Gastrococos.Acrocomia aculeata: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Windward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago (also Mexico, Central and South America).Caribbean species have single, spiny stems 4–18 metres (13–59 ft) tall. Most authors recognise only three species, A. Since it covers such a large range and is highly variable, as many as 40 species have been described in this genus. Īcrocomia is a genus of spiny palms found throughout the Neotropics, from Mexico to Argentina and throughout the Caribbean. Acoelorrhaphe wrightii: Bahamas ( Andros, Eleuthera, New Providence), Cuba (west Cuba and Isle of Youth), San Andrés and Providencia (Colombia) also present on the Caribbean coastal areas of south Florida, Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
The species usually grows in low-lying areas near sea level, often in flooded woodlands or thickets in savannas. Acoelorrhaphe is a sister genus to Serenoa (Saw Palmetto), which is endemic to the southeastern United States. The tree is a slender fan palm growing up to 7 metres (23 ft) tall, usually with many stems clustered together. The Caribbean species in the genus Copernicia are all Greater Antillean endemics two species are restricted to Hispaniola, while the others are restricted to Cuba.Īcoelorrhaphe is a monotypic genus which is distributed around the margins of the Caribbean Sea, from Florida to San Andrés and Providencia, Colombian islands in the western Caribbean. Although nearly ubiquitous in the region, the coconut ( Cocos nucifera) is not native to the Caribbean. Three genera of palm are endemic to the Greater Antilles: Calyptronoma, Hemithrinax and Zombia. The palm flora of Trinidad and Tobago consists primarily of species with a South American distribution. The Windward and Leeward Islands have the fewest. Of the islands in the Caribbean, Cuba has the most species of palm, followed by Hispaniola. Most species either have a wide distribution which includes part of the Caribbean, or are endemic to the Greater Antilles. Phytogeographically, the Caribbean region is often considered to include the coastal plains of the United States (including south Florida), Mexico (especially the Yucatan), Belize, Colombia and Venezuela. Sixty-two percent of monotypic genera are found only on islands. Their distribution is biased toward islands – 36% of genera and 52% of species are found only on islands, while 32% of genera and 6% of species are found only on continents. Globally there are about 191 genera and 2339 species as reported in 2004 by Carlo Morici. The palm family, Arecaceae, is widespread in the Caribbean.
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