Geonoma

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Geonoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
(unranked) Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Arecoideae
Tribe: Geonomeae
Genus: Geonoma
Willd.
Species

64, see text
Synonyms

Gynestum Poit.
Kalbreyera Burret
Roebelia Engel
Taenianthera Burret
Vouay Aubl.

Geonoma is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America.

This palm genus is one of the largest in the Neotropics[1]. Its 64 species are distributed from Mexico and Haiti in the north to Paraguay in the south; two are found in the insular Caribbean[2].

[edit] Species[3]

  • Geonoma monospatha de Nevers
  • Geonoma mooreana de Nevers & Grayum
  • Geonoma myriantha Dammer
  • Geonoma oldemanii Granv.
  • Geonoma oligoclona Trail
  • Geonoma orbignyana Mart. in A.D.d'Orbigny
  • Geonoma paradoxa Burret
  • Geonoma paraguanensis H.Karst.
  • Geonoma pauciflora Mart.
  • Geonoma poeppigiana Mart. in A.D.d'Orbigny
  • Geonoma pohliana Mart.
  • Geonoma polyandra Skov
  • Geonoma polyneura Burret
  • Geonoma rubescens H.Wendl. ex Drude
  • Geonoma santanderensis Galeano & R.Bernal
  • Geonoma schottiana Mart.
  • Geonoma scoparia Grayum & Nevers
  • Geonoma seleri Burret
  • Geonoma simplicifrons Willd.
  • Geonoma spinescens H.Wendl.
  • Geonoma stricta (Poit.) Kunth
    • Geonoma stricta var. stricta (Poit.) Kunth
  • Geonoma supracostata Svenning
  • Geonoma talamancana Grayum
  • Geonoma tenuissima H.E.Moore
  • Geonoma triandra (Burret) Wess.Boer
  • Geonoma triglochin Burret
  • Geonoma trigona (Ruiz & Pav.) A.H.Gentry
  • Geonoma umbraculiformis Wess.Boer
  • Geonoma undata Klotzsch
  • Geonoma weberbaueri Dammer ex Burret
  • Geonoma wilsonii Galeano & R.Bernal

Species now placed elsewhere include Calyptronoma occidentalis (= Geonoma swartzii) and Calyptronoma plumeriana (= Geonoma dulcis, G. intermedia, plumeriana).

[edit] References

  • Govaerts, R.; Dransfield, J.; Zona, S.F; Hodel, D.R. & Henderson, Andrew (2008): Geonoma. In: World Checklist of Arecaceae. Retrieved 2008-APR-01.
  • Henderson, Andrew; Galeano, Gloria & Bernal, Rodrigo (1995): Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 0-691-08537-4 HTML preview at Google Books
  • Morici, Carlo (2004): Palmeras e Islas: La Insularidad en una de las Familias más Diversas del Reino Vegetal. In: Fernández-Palacios, J.M. & Morici, C.[verification needed]: Ecología Insular/Island Ecology: 81-122. Asociatión Española de Ecología Terestre (AEET)-Cabildo Insular de La Palma [in Spanish]. PDF fulltext