Coccothrinax alexandri

Coccothrinax alexandri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Genus:	Coccothrinax
Species:	C. alexandri
Binomial name
Coccothrinax alexandri León[1]

Coccothrinax alexandri is a palm which is endemic to eastern Cuba. Like other members of the genus, C. alexandri is a fan palm. Two subspecies are recognised—Coccothrinax alexandri subsp. alexandri^[2] and Coccothrinax alexandri subsp. nitida (León) Borhidi & O.Muñiz.^[3]

Henderson and colleagues (1995) considered C. alexandri to be a synonym of Coccothrinax miraguama.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Coccothrinax alexandri". WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=44371&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=44371&status=true. Retrieved 2007-01-29. 
2. ^ "Coccothrinax alexandri subsp. alexandri". WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=44372&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=44372&status=true. Retrieved 2007-01-29. 
3. ^ "Coccothrinax alexandri subsp. nitida". WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=44374&repSynonym_id=44373&name_id=44374&status=true. Retrieved 2007-01-29. 
4. ^ Henderson, Andrew; Gloria Galeano; Rodrigo Bernal (1995). Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08537-4.