Taxon: Ptychosperma elegans (R. Br.) Blume

• the 11 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• Alexander palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• cabbage palm   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• elegant palm   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• solitaire palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Alexanderpalme   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; Zander ed13)
  

Distributional range:

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Bentham, G. 1863–1878. Flora australiensis.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield. 2005. World checklist of palms.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• 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).
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ptychosperma elegans.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ptychosperma elegans.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ptychosperma elegans.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Seaforthia elegans R. Br. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 10 accessions)

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

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

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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