Lytocaryum weddellianum (H. Wendl.) Toledo

Nicholson's Dictionary of Gardening, 1888

C. Weddeliana (Weddel's Palm)
This is probably the most elegant small palm ever introduced into Europe, and one that should be in every collection of stove plants. See fig. 486 for which we are indebted to Mr. William Bull.
Two synonyms given by Nicholson's dictionary refer to other species that likely were confused in cultivation at the time : Leopoldinia pulchra & Glaziova elegantissima

Glaziova Mart. ex Drude (Flora Brasiliensis 3(2): 395. 1881) a genus of ARECACEAE is a homonym for Glaziova Bureau (Adansonia 8: 379-380. 1868) a genus of BIGNONIACEAE which takes priority. Glaziova elegantissima Drude in Mart. IPNI record (GCI)= Calappa elegantissima ( Drude ) Kuntze

Choice Stove and Greenhouse Ornamental Leaved Plants, Benjamin Samuel Williams, p. 163
C. Weddeliana. __ "This is perhaps the most elegant Palm yet introduced to European gardens ; it has been distributed from some continental gardens under the name Leopoldinia pulchra, but this is a complete misapplication of names, for it is not a synonym even, the true Leopoldinia pulchra being totally distinct, and not yet in cultivation ... No collection in Europe, great or small, should lack this most graceful of all plants. Native of South America."

Linden, the great Belgian nurseyman used the name Cocos elegantissima for this palm introduced by him at the Exposition Internationale d'Horticulture at Paris, 1867. He had it from the Amazon in 1864. "Cocos elegantissima, nouveau Palmier à feuilles pennées, d'une finesse extrême et très remarquable.

Cocos elegantissima H.Wendl. in O.C.E.de Kerchove de Denterghem, Palmiers: 241 (1878). This name is unplaced.

Attention: Cocos elegantissima Chabaud Revue Horticole 77: 516. 1905. = Butia capitata (Mart.) Becc.

Habitat
Southeastern Brazil, Atlantic Coastal Forest (Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro). lowland rain forest on steep slopes, usually below 1000 m elevation. Palmeirinha-de-petrópolis, a palmeira vedeliana de Petrópolis, also known as Agué and icá in Brazil. (Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas, Henderson, Galeano & Bernal)

Synonyms
Glaziova elegantissima Hort.ex H.Wendl. IPNI record (IK) Flor. & Pom. (1871) 116.nom. inval. nom. nud.
Cocos elegantissima Hort. (Linden)
Cocos weddellianum H. Wendl., Florist and Pomologist 114. 1871.
Syagrus weddellianus (H. Wendl.) Becc. Agricoltura Coloniale 10: 468. 1916. (Agric. Colon.)
Lytocaryum weddellianum (H. Wendl.) Toledo Arquivos de Botânica do Estado de São Paulo 2: 8. 1944. (Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo)
Microcoelum weddellianum (H. Wendl.) H.E. Moore Gentes Herbarum; occasional papers on the kind of plants 9: 267. 1963. (Gentes Herb.)
Cocos pynaertii auct., Gard. Chron., III, 1891(1): 683 (1891) is a synonym for Lytocaryum weddellianum (H.Wendl.) Toledo, Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 8 (1944).
Cocos insignis Mart. ex H.Wendl. in O.C.E.de Kerchove de Denterghem, Palmiers: 241 (1878) is a synonym for Lytocaryum weddellianum (H.Wendl.) Toledo, Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 8 (1944).
Cocos weddelliana H.Wendl., Florist & Pomol. 1871: 114 (1871) is a synonym for Lytocaryum weddellianum (H.Wendl.) Toledo, Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 8 (1944). Homotypic synonyms are Syagrus weddelliana (H.Wendl.) Becc., Agric. Colon. 10: 468 (1916), Lytocaryum weddellianum (H.Wendl.) Toledo, Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 8 (1944) and Microcoelum weddellianum (H.Wendl.) H.E.Moore, Gentes Herb. 9: 267 (1963).