Gastrococos

taxobox
name = "Gastrococos crispa"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Arecales
familia = Arecaceae
subfamilia = Arecoideae
tribus = Cocoeae
genus = "Gastrococos"
species = "G. crispa"
binomial = "Gastrococos crispa"
binomial_authority = (Kunth) H.E. Moore
synonyms = "Acrocomia armentalis" (Morales) L.H. Bailey "Acrocomia crispa" (Kunth) C. Baker ex. Becc. "Acrocomia lasiospatha" of Griseb. "Astrocaryum crispum" (Kunth) Gomez Maca "Cocos crispa" Kunth "Gastrococos armentalis" (Morales)|

"Gastrococos crispa" (Cuban belly palm, Corojo Palm), a palm species which is endemic to Cuba. It is the sole member of the genus "Gastrococos". It is a tall, spiny palm with a trunk that is slender at the base, but swollen in the middle, giving it the name "Cuban belly palm" in English. [cite web| url = http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Gastrococos/crispa.html| title = Gastrococos crispa | accessdate = 2007-02-21 | last = Kyburz | first = Rolf | publisher = PACSOA, the Palm and Cycad Society of Australia ] It is closely related to the genus "Acrocomia".cite book |last=Henderson |first=Andrew |authorlink= Andrew Henderson |coauthors=Gloria Galeano; Rodrigo Bernal|title=Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas |year=1995 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey| isbn= 0-691-08537-4 ]

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cite web |url=http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=88798&repSynonym_id=44605&name_id=88798&status=true |title= "Gastrococos crispa"|accessdate=2007-01-15 |format= |work= Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families