613.010 Roystonea O.F. Cook

Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand

Description of the genus

Palms. Solitary, stems erect; unarmed; forming prominent crownshaft, green and smooth. Leaves petiole unarmed; lamina pinnate, plication reduplicate; segments linear-lanceolate, in more than 1 plane. Inflorescence axillary below the crown of leaves, paniculate with 2 or 3 orders of branching; flowers sessile in triads. Flowers: sepals 3, imbricate, membranous; petals 3, valvate. Fruit a drupe, fibrous, stigmatic scar basal; exocarp ripening from green to red to purplish-black, thin leathery; mesocarp fleshy oily; endocarp hard. Seeds 1 nearly globose, dorsiventrally compressed.

Worldwide: 11 species in Florida, Central and South America and the West Indies.

Mozambique: 1 cultivated taxon.

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regia (Kunth) O.F. Cook

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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Roystonea

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Roystonea
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Roystonea
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Roystonea
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iNaturalist: Roystonea
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Roystonea
JSTOR Plant Science: Roystonea
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Roystonea
Plants of the World Online: Roystonea
Tropicos: Roystonea
Wikipedia: Roystonea

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Cultivated plants: genus page: Roystonea.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/cult/genus.php?genus_id=2073, retrieved 14 October 2024

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