Taxon: Washingtonia robusta H. Wendl.

Common names:

• fan palm   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Mexican fan palm   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Mexican Washington palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Mexican washingtonia   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• thread palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• palmier évantail du Mexique   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• mexikanische Washingtonpalme   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• robustapalm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed13)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Sonora [w.]

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [s.]

• also cultivated

References:

• Abbiw, D. K. 1990. Useful plants of Ghana.
• 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).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Glassman, S. F. 1972. Revis. Index Amer. Palms.
• Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield. 2005. World checklist of palms.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• 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 7:170.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Uhl, N. W. & J. Dransfield. 1987. Genera palmarum: a classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore, Jr.
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Washingtonia robusta.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Washingtonia robusta.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Washingtonia robusta.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Neowashingtonia robusta (H. Wendl.) A. Heller
  
• (=) Washingtonia sonorae S. Watson
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Washingtonia robusta H. Wendl.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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