Talk:List of Arecaceae genera

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Unless the genera can be arranged alphabetically within each tribe, this listing has limited value - Marshman 03:35, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I have reorganized the list by subfamily according to Uhl and Dransfield (1987) and have added some new species. SCHZMO ✍ 15:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I think that it would be more useful a list of all genera arranged alphabetically. Since some genera aren't listed here, like Voanioala. Berton 17:08, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hemithrinax

Since theres a hemithrinax genus page I didnt delete it from the list but this is a probable syn. of thrinax and may need to be removed, as well as the genus article.Mmcknight4 07:44, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes

I've nixed a subfamily and moved a couple tribes around per several studies which I couldn't access completely but which seem to corroborate one another. Excerpts:

• "The phylogeny supported a new circumscription for the subfamily Coryphoideae, including all taxa previously recognized in Coryphoideae with the addition of the tribe Caryoteae, formerly of the subfamily Arecoideae."
• "The Ceroxyloideae is a small but heterogeneous subfamily of palms (Arecaceae, Palmae). It includes a Caribbean lineage (tribe Cyclospathae), a southern hemisphere disjunction (tribe Ceroxyleae), and an amphi-Andean element (tribe Phytelepheae), until recently considered a distinct subfamily (Phytelephantoideae) due to its highly derived morphology."
• "Finally, the subfamily Arecoideae was modified to exclude the tribe Caryoteae and to include the tribe Hyophorbeae."

Mmcknight4 (talk) 21:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC)