Taxon: Syagrus romanzoffiana (Cham.) Glassman

Common names:

• giriba palm   (Source: Palms World ) – English
  
• queen palm   (Source: Hortus 3 [as Arecastrum romanzoffianum]) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil [e.]
  Western South America: Bolivia [possibly e.]
  Southern South America: Argentina [Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Rios]; Paraguay; Uruguay

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Glassman, S. F. 1987. Revisions of the palm genus Syagrus Mart. and other selected genera in the Cocos alliance. Illinois Biol. Monogr. 56:98. [= Arecastrum romanzoffiana (Cham.) Becc.].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
• Jones, D. L. 1994. Palms throughout the world. (Palms World)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3) [= Arecastrum romanzoffianum].
• Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:127. [= Arecastrum romanzoffiana (Cham.) Becc.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin) [= Arecastrum romanzoffiana (Cham.) Becc.].
• Uhl, N. W. & J. Dransfield. 1987. Genera Palmarum. (Gen Palm) [treat Arecastrum as a synonym of Syagrus].
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F) [= Arecastrum romanzoffianum var. australe].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Syagrus romanzoffiana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Syagrus romanzoffiana. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Arecastrum romanzoffianum (Cham.) Becc.
  (previously associated with 18 accessions)
• (=) Arecastrum romanzoffianum var. australe (Mart.) Becc.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Arecastrum romanzoffianum var. micropindo Becc.
  
• (=) Cocos australis Mart.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Cocos datil Drude & Griseb.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Cocos romanzoffiana Cham. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 12 accessions)

Check other databases for Syagrus romanzoffiana (Cham.) Glassman:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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