Pritchardia limahuliensis

Pritchardia limahuliensis

taxobox
name = "Pritchardia limahuliensis"


image_caption = Specimen growing in the Limahuli Garden and Preserve.
status = CR
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Arecales
familia = Arecaceae
genus = "Pritchardia"
species = "P. limahuliensis"
binomial = "Pritchardia limahuliensis"
binomial_authority = St.John|

"Pritchardia limahuliensis" is a palm native to Hawaii. It is a rare species, only discovered in 1977 by staff of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in the Limahuli Garden and Preserve, Kauai, Hawaii, where it is now being conserved. It is threatened by introduced rats, which eat the seeds.

It is a medium-sized palm, growing to 10 m tall, with palmate (fan-shaped) leaves.

References

*IUCN2006|assessors=Gemmill, C.|year=1998|id=38741|title=Pritchardia viscosa|downloaded=24 July 2006
* [http://www.ntbg.org/plants/plantresource_new3.php?plant=9488 National Tropical Botanical Garden: "Pritchardia limahuliensis"]


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