Taxon: Metroxylon amicarum (H. Wendl.) Becc.
Genus: Metroxylon
Family: Arecaceae (alt. Palmae) subfamily: Calamoideae tribe: Calameae subtribe: Metroxylinae.
Nomen number: 103023
Place of publication: Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 12(2):187. 1918
Name verified on: 06-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-May-2011
No species priority site assigned. Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
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Native:
- PACIFIC
Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Micronesia - Chuuk, Pohnpei
- Elevitch, C. R., ed.
The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
- Jones, D. L.
1994. Palms throughout the world.
- Moore, H. E., Jr. & F. R. Fosberg.
1956. The palms of Micronesia and the Bonin Islands.
Gentes Herb.
8:439–444.
- Moore, H. E., Jr.
1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms.
Principes
7:152, 178.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rauwerdink, J. B.
1986. An essay on Metroxylon, the sago palm.
Principes
30:176.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- St. John, H.
1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
- Uhl, N. W. & J. Dransfield.
1987. Genera palmarum: a classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore, Jr.
246. [mentions].
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Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Metroxylon amicarum (H. Wendl.) Becc.:
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- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?103023 (18 May 2013)
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