Saturday, 17 January 2009

Syagrus romanzoffiana



Coquero de Bresil (Cocos Romanzoffiana Cham.)
dess. et lith. par Choris, lith. de Langlume
Paris : Imprimerie Firmin Didot, 1822


Syagrus romanzoffiana (Cham.) Glassman
Fieldiana, Botany 31(17): 382. 1968

Figured in the BM as Nº 5180 Cocos plumosa and still known in nursery trade of Portugal as Coqueiro do Jardim, this is widely cultivated as an ornamental palm. First flowered at Kew in 1859, it had been received from the nurseryman Loddiges as a Brazilian species to which Von Martius had given the name of Cocos coronata, but had proved distinct from that species. Hooker adopted the name from the Loddiges catalogue and gave it a Latin description as Cocos plumosa , Hook. Just one of the 23 or more synonyms that this palm has accumulated over the past century and a half.


Local names (Argentina) Pindo, Coco Pindo, Coquito

English name: Queen Palm


Indigenous to southern and southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina and northern Uraguay. Monsoonal forests and swampy areas, always at low elevation. (Riffle & Craft).



Still growing at Monserrate, down Mexico way ...

Synonyms

Arecastrum romanzoffianum (Cham.) Becc.
López, J. A. & E. L. Little, Jr. 1987. Arboles Comunes del Paraguay 425 pp..
Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 2000. Magnoliophyta: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae (in part), and Zingiberidae. Fl. N. Amer. 22: i–xxiii, 1–352.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Flora of China Editorial Committee, Addendum, 200?. Fl. China ,Checklist Addendum.
Glassman, S. F. 1968. Studies in the Palm genus Syagrus Mart.. Fieldiana, Bot. 31: 363–397.
Arecastrum romanzoffianum subvar. minus Becc.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Arecastrum romanzoffianum var. australe (Mart.) Becc.
Glassman, S. F. 1968. Studies in the Palm genus Syagrus Mart.. Fieldiana, Bot. 31: 363–397.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
*Arecastrum romanzoffianum var. genuinum Becc.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Arecastrum romanzoffianum var. micropindo Becc.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Cocos acrocomioides Drude
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Cocos arechavaletana Barb. Rodr.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Cocos australis Mart.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Cocos datil Drude & Griseb.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Glassman, S. F. 1968. Studies in the Palm genus Syagrus Mart.. Fieldiana, Bot. 31: 363–397.
Cocos geriba Barb. Rodr.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Cocos martiana Drude & Glaz. ex Drude
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Cocos plumosa Lodd. ex Hook.
Henderson, A., G. Galeano & R. Bernal 1995. Field Guide Palms Americas 1–352.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 2000. Magnoliophyta: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae (in part), and Zingiberidae. Fl. N. Amer. 22: i–xxiii, 1–352.
Cocos romanzoffiana Cham.

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