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Taxon: Ptychosperma elegans (R. Br.) Blume

Genus: Ptychosperma
Family: Arecaceae (alt. Palmae) subfamily: Arecoideae tribe: Areceae subtribe: Ptychospermatinae.
Nomen number: 30330
Place of publication: Rumphia 2:118. 1839 ("1836")
Comment: sometimes confused in cultivation with Archontophoenix cunninghamiana
Name verified on: 07-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 25-Jan-2002
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • Alexander palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • cabbage palm   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  • solitaire palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
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Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - Queensland

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Bentham, G. 1863–1878. Flora australiensis. (F AustBenth)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:160,180.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Ptychosperma elegans (R. Br.) Blume:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • 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.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google 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.

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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?30330 (09 February 2010)

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