Coccothrinax crinita brevicrinis

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Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Coccothrinax

Plants small to moderate. Stems solitary or occasionally caespitose , erect , slender, at first covered with leaf sheaths . Leaves: sheath fibers soft, netlike, eventually sloughing off to reveal smooth to fissured stem; petiole not split at base , unarmed ; abaxial hastula a low ridge or absent; adaxial hastula a crescent-shaped ridge to semi-cylindric excrescence ; blade palmate; plication induplicatee (V-shaped) ; segments lanceolate, basally connate ; cross veins obscure [conspicuous ]. Inflores cences interfoliar, downcurved [long and arching ], not extending beyond leaves, with 2 orders of branching; prophyll short, peduncular bracts several, sterile , tubular , distally expanded, silky-pubescent; primary branches subtended by smaller peduncular bracts. Flowers bisexual , borne singly along rachillae, short-pedicellate; perianth 1-seriate, shallowly cupulate , lobes 5--7, apiculate ; stamens 7--12; filaments acute; anthers dorsifixed , twisted when dry; pistils 1, 1-carpellate, glabrous ; style slender; stigma funnelform . Fruits globose ; stigmatic scar apical; exocarp purplish, smooth, slightly warty when dry; mesocarp fleshy ; endocarp membranaceous . Seeds globose, irregularly brain-shaped; endosperm homogeneous , bony; embryo apical [superior]; eophyll undivided, lanceolate.

Species 14--50 (1 in the flora ) : Caribbean Basin .

Coccothrinax shares a similar floral morphology with Thrinax, and like Thrinax it is wind pollinated. Fruits of C. argentata are one of the most important foods of Florida€™s Key deer (W. D. Klimstra and A. L. Dooley 1990), but seeds are not excreted intact (W. D. Klimstra, pers. comm. ) .

Coccothrinax includes a great number of species with ornamental potential, and many of the cultivated ones are discussed by C. E. Nauman and R. W. Sanders (1991) . Because of their generally small and slender stature and their predictable growth form , they make elegant horticultural subjects.

Theis genus is in dire need of systematic study.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [2].

Ecology: Found in lowland, seasonally flooded savannah up to 500 m. (Ref. 264137).

Biology

Growth

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 8.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

Similar Species

Members of the genus Coccothrinax

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. argentata (Florida Silver Palm) · C. argentea (Silver Thatch Palm) · C. barbadensis (Barbados Silver Palm) · C. borhidiana (Borhidis Guano Palm) · C. crinita (Old Man Palm) · C. crinita brevicrinis (Short Hair Old Man Palm) · C. crinita crinita (Old Man Palm) · C. inaguensis (Thatch Palm) · C. litoralis (Cuban Silver Palm) · C. miraguama (Miraguama Palm) · C. proctorii (Cayman Thatch Palm) · C. readii (Mexican Silver Palm) · C. spissa (Swollen Silver Thatch Palm)

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Further Reading

• Johnson, D. et al. 1997. Completed data collection forms for palms.
• Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
• Nauman, C. E. and R. W. Sanders. 1991. An annotated key to the cultivated species of Coccothrinax. Principes 35: 27--46.
• Nauman, C. E. 1990. Intergeneric hybridization between Coccothrinax and Thrinax (Palmae: Coryphoideae). Principes 34: 191--198.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Moya, C. 1998. Coccothrinax crinita ssp. brevicrinis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8828797
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-44398
• IUCN ID: 13595
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 727550

Footnotes

1. "Coccothrinax". in Flora of North America Vol. 22 Page 99, 100. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Moya, C. 1998. Coccothrinax crinita ssp. brevicrinis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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