- Neonicholsonia
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Neonicholsonia 
Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots (unranked): Commelinids Order: Arecales Family: Arecaceae Subfamily: Arecoideae Tribe: Areceae Genus: Neonicholsonia Species: N. watsonii Binomial name Neonicholsonia watsonii
Dammer[1]Neonicholsonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family native to Central America. The genus and species names honor George Nicholson, a former curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and William Watson, American botanist and collector.[2]
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Description
The trunk is solitary and acaulescent or barely emergent, producing 1.5 m leaves, pinnately cleft, with a gentle arch. The leaves are carried on short petioles, the leaflets grow to 30 cm, elliptical, and colored emerald green, and are widely and regularly arranged along the rachis. The inflorescence is a solitary, interfoliar spike with a long, slender peduncle, carrying male and female flowers. The fruit is ellipsoidal, black when ripe, with one globose seed.[2]
Distribution and habitat
Found in the rain forests of Nicuragua and Panama from sea level to 250 m.[3]
References
- ^ Dammer, Gardeners' Chronicle series 3, 30:178. 1901.
- ^ a b Riffle, Robert L. and Craft, Paul (2003) An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms. Portland: Timber Press. ISBN 0881925586 / ISBN 978-0881925586
- ^ Uhl, Natalie W. and Dransfield, John (1987) Genera Palmarum - A classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press. ISBN 0935868305 / ISBN 978-0935868302
External links
Categories:- Arecoideae
- Arecales genera
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