Palmae

Of monocot family and Palmales.   May also be referred to as Arecaceae, Palmaceae, family Arecaceae, family Palmaceae, family Palmae and palm family.

Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales.

This concept's ID is @1~63002

Monocot Genus

  • Copernicia 2 facts

    Slow-growing tropical fan palms.

  • Corypha 2 facts

    Large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia.

  • Orbignya 2 facts

    Palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm.

  • Roystonea 2 facts

    A monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms.

  • Thrinax 2 facts

    Small to medium-sized fan palms.

  • Acrocomia 1 facts

    Central and South American feather palms.

  • genus Areca 1 facts

    A monocotyledonous genus of palm trees.

  • Attalea 1 facts

    Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.

  • Borassus 1 facts

    Palmyra.

  • genus Calamus 1 facts

    Distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical...

  • Caryota 1 facts

    Fishtail palms.

  • Ceroxylon 1 facts

    Wax palms.

  • Cocos 1 facts

    Coconut palms.

  • genus Corozo 1 facts

    A monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm trees.

  • Elaeis 1 facts

    Oil palms.

  • Euterpe 1 facts

    A monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America.

  • Nipa 1 facts

    Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.

  • phoenicophorium 1 facts

    Latanier palm.

  • Raffia 1 facts

    Feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown...

  • Rhapis 1 facts

    Genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan.

  • Sabal 1 facts

    American dwarf fan palms.

  • Serenoa 1 facts

    One species: saw palmetto.

  • Metroxylon 0 facts

    A genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then die.

  • phoenix 0 facts

    A large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa.

Plant Genus

  • Arenga 1 facts

    A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.

  • Livistona 1 facts

    Fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia.

  • phytelephas 1 facts

    Small genus of South American feather palms.

Also contains

  • palm 14 facts

    Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate...