Pseudophoenix sargentii

taxobox
name = "Pseudophoenix"


image_caption = "Pseudophoenix sargentii"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Arecales
familia = Arecaceae
genus = "Pseudophoenix"
species = "P. ekmanii"
binomial = "Pseudophoenix sargentii"
binomial_authority = H.Wendl. ex Sarg.|

"Pseudophoenix sargentii" (cherry palm, palma de guinea, cacheo, kuká) [Cherry palm in the United States, palma de guinea in Cuba, cacheo in the Dominican Republic, kuká in Mexico] 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 ] is a medium-sized palm found in the northern Caribbean, south to Dominica and adjacent parts of the mainland (Florida in the United States, Quintana Roo in Mexico and Belize)cite web |url=http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=166480&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=166480&status=true |title= "Pseudophoenix sargentii"|accessdate=2007-10-26 |format= |work= Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families] usually near the sea on sandy or limestone soils. The plant has solitary stems, 4-8 metres tall and up to 30 centimetres in diameter, often slightly swollen.

It is occasionally used as an ornamental.

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