Overview
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Desmoncus is a genus of spiny palms native to the Neotropics. The genus extends from Mexico in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south, with two species, D. orthacanthos and D. polyacanthos, present in the southeastern Caribbean.
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- "Desmoncus Mart., Hist. Nat. Palm. 2: 84 (1824)". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=60346&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=60346&status=true. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius: The Book of Palms/Das Buch der Palmen/Le livre des palmiers, introduced by the editor editor H. Walter Lack, Taschen Verlag, K?ln, Germany 2010 ISBN 978-3-8365-1779-9
Taxonomy
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The Genus Desmoncus is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 87 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Desmoncus: D. aculeatus · D. aereus · D. americanus · D. andicola · D. angustisectus · D. anomalus · D. apureanus · D. ataxacanthus · D. brittonii · D. caespitosus · D. chinantlensis · D. cirrhifera · D. cirrhiferus · D. costaricensis · D. cuyabaensis · D. demeraranus · D. dubius · D. duidensis · D. ferox · D. giganteus (Desmoncus) · D. glaber · D. granatensis · D. hartii · D. horridus · D. huebneri · D. inermis · D. isthmius · D. kaieteurensis · D. kuhlmannii · D. kunaria · D. kunaria de · D. latisectus · D. leiorhachis · D. leptochaete · D. leptoclonos · D. leptospadix · D. longifolius · D. lophacanthos · D. luetzelburgii · D. lundellii · D. macroacanthos · D. macrocarpus · D. maguirei · D. major · D. melanacanthos · D. mitis · D. mitis var. leptoclonos · D. mitis var. leptospadix · D. mitis var. mitis · D. mitis var. rurrenabaquensis · D. mitis var. tenerrimus · D. multijugus · D. myriacanthos · D. nemorosus · D. oligacanthus · D. orthacanthos (Basket Tie-Tie) · D. orthacanthus · D. orthocanthos (Desmoncus) · D. oxyacanthos · D. palustris · D. panamensis · D. paraensis · D. parvulus · D. phengophyllus · D. phoenicocarpus · D. polyacanthos (Suriname Bramble Palm) · D. polyacanthos var. polyacanthos · D. polyacanthos var. prunifer · D. polyacanthus · D. prestoei · D. prostratus · D. prunifer · D. pumilus · D. pycnacanthos (Brazil Bramble Palm) · D. quasillarius · D. riparius · D. rudentum · D. schippii · D. setosus · D. stans · D. tenerrimus · D. tobagonis · D. uaxactunensis · D. ulei · D. vacivus · D. velezii · D. werdermannii
References
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- "Desmoncus Mart., Hist. Nat. Palm. 2: 84 (1824)". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=60346&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=60346&status=true. Ret rieved on 2007-02-18.
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