Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Arecidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Arecanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Arecales
()
- Bromhead, 1840
- Family:
Palmae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Coryphoideae
()
- Tribe:
Trachycarpeae
()
- Genus:
Copernicia
()
- Martius ex Endlicher, 1837
- Subgenus:
nom
()
- Specific epithet:
rigida
- Britton & Wilson
- Botanical name: - Copernicia rigida Britton & Wilson
- Specific epithet:
rigida
- Britton & Wilson
- Subgenus:
nom
(
- Genus:
Copernicia
(
- Tribe:
Trachycarpeae
(
- Subfamily:
Coryphoideae
(
- Family:
Palmae
(
- Order:
Arecales
(
- Superorder:
Arecanae
(
- Subclass:
Arecidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Copernicia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. alba (Caranday Palm) · C. baileyana (Bailey Palm) · C. brittonorum (Cuban Palm) · C. campestris (Campestre Palm) · C. ekmanii (Copernicia) · C. gigas (Cuban Palm) · C. glabrescens (Cuban Palm) · C. hospita (Blue Yarey Palm) · C. macroglossa (Cuban Petticoat Palm) · C. prunifera (Carnauba Wax Palm) · C. tectorum (Venezuelan Wax Palm)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 734.
- Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1899- url p. 17.
- Index of American palms, by B.E. Dahlgren. Fossil palms, by A.C. Noé. 14 1936 Chicago, IL: Field Museum of Natural History1936-59. url p. 350.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 148.
- Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. 14 1936 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1912-1947. url p. 350.
- Studies in West Indian plants. New York, 1908-26. url p. 17.
- The Asa Gray bulletin. 1 1952 Ann Arbor, Mich. url , p. 253, p. 258.
- The Palms of the New World: a conservation census IUCN url p. 13, p. 29.
Notes
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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. Copernicia rigida. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3482207
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-46722
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:666277-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 666277-1
- IUCN ID: 201820
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1025233
Footnotes
- Moya, C. 1998. Copernicia rigida. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
