Pseudophoenix ekmanii

taxobox
name = "Pseudophoenix ekmanii"
status = CR
status_system = IUCN2.3
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Johnson, D. |year=1988 |id=38659 |title= Pseudophoenix ekmanii |downloaded=January 17, 2007 ]
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Arecales
familia = Arecaceae
genus = "Pseudophoenix"
species = "P. ekmanii"
binomial = "Pseudophoenix ekmanii"
binomial_authority = Burret|

"Pseudophoenix ekmanii" (Cacheocite web| url = http://miami-dade.ifas.ufl.edu/programs/urbanhort/publications/PDF/EdiblePalms.pdf| title = Edible Palms and Their Uses| accessdate = 2007-01-17 | last = Haynes| first = Jody | | coauthors = John McLaughlin| year = 2000| month = November | work = Fact Sheet MDCE-00-50-1| publisher = University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences] , Cacheo de Oviedo [cite web | url = http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/photos/Species/pseudophoenix_ekmanii.htm | title = "Pseudophoenix ekmanii" | accessdate = 2007-01-17 | author = Palm and Cycad Society of Florida ] , Dominican Cherry palm [cite web | url = http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Pseudophoenix/ekmanii.html | title = Palms: Pseudophoenix ekmanii | accessdate = 2007-01-17 | author = Palm and Cycad Society of Australia ] ) is a palm species endemic to the Barahona Peninsula and Isla Beata in the Dominican Republic.cite web |url=http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=166472&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=166472&status=true |title= "Pseudophoenix ekmanii"|accessdate=2007-01-16 |format= |work= Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families] It is a small tree, four to six metres tall, with pinnately compound leaves and solitary, swollen stems. The fruit are reddish with a diameter of about 2 centimetres in diameter.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 ]

"Pseudophoenix ekmanii" was used in the past of palm wine production. Trees were cut down and the pith extracted, especially from the swollen portion of the stem. Sap was extracted and fermented. As a consequence of this cutting for palm wine production, the species is considered critically endangered. Current threat include grazing and agriculture.

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External links

* [http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/photos/Species/pseudophoenix_ekmanii.htm Image of "Pseudophoenix ekmanii"] from the Palm and Cycad Society of Florida.
* [http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Pseudophoenix/ekmanii.html "Pseudophoenix ekmanii"] from the Palm and Cycad Society of Australia.