Taxon: Syagrus romanzoffiana (Cham.) Glassman

Common names:

• giriba palm   (Source: Palms World ) – English
  
• queen palm   (Source: Hortus 3 [as Arecastrum romanzoffianum]) – English
  
• romanzoffianische Kokospalme   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• drottningpalm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• 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.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Jones, D. L. 1994. Palms throughout the world.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= 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).
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. [= Arecastrum romanzoffiana (Cham.) Becc.].
• Uhl, N. W. & J. Dransfield. 1987. Genera palmarum: a classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore, Jr. [treat Arecastrum as a synonym of Syagrus].
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. [= 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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Syagrus romanzoffiana.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Arecastrum romanzoffianum (Cham.) Becc.
  (previously associated with 21 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 plumosa Hook. f.
  
• (≡) Cocos romanzoffiana Cham. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 12 accessions)

Check other web resources 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• 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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