Brahea
{{Short description|Genus of palms}}
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|image = Brahea decumbens 2.jpg
|image_caption = Brahea decumbens
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|taxon = Brahea
|authority = Mart. ex Endl.
|synonyms = Erythea S.Watson
Glaucothea O.F.Cook
|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1679 |title=Genus: Brahea Mart. ex Endl. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2004-10-15 |access-date=2010-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528140752/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1679 |archive-date=2010-05-28 |url-status=dead }}
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Brahea is a genus of palms in the family Arecaceae. They are commonly referred to as hesper palms and are endemic to Mexico and Central America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=24003 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. All Hesper Palms have large, fan-shaped leaves.
The generic name honours Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601).{{cite book |last=Henderson |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Henderson (botanist) |author2=Gloria Galeano |author3-link=Rodrigo Bernal |author3=Rodrigo Bernal |title=Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas |year=1997 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey| isbn=978-0-691-01600-9 |page=54|author2-link=Gloria Galeano }}
Species
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| Image | Name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Brahea aculeata (Brandegee) H.E.Moore | Sinaloa hesper palm | Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango |
| 120px | Brahea armata S.Watson | Blue hesper palm, Mexican blue palm | Baja California, Sonora |
| 120px | Brahea brandegeei (Purpus) H.E.Moore | San Jose hesper palm, palma de taco | Baja California Sur, Sonora |
| 120px | Brahea calcarea Liebm. | western Mexico, Guatemala | |
| 120px | Brahea decumbens Rzed. | Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí | |
| Brahea dulcis (Kunth) Mart. | Rock palm | widespread across much of Mexico as well as Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador | |
| 120px | Brahea edulis H.Wendl. | Guadalupe palm | Guadalupe Island in State of Baja California |
| Brahea moorei L.H.Bailey ex H.E.Moore | Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas | ||
| Brahea pimo Becc. | Nayarit, Jalisco, Guerrero, México State, Michoacán | ||
| 120px | Brahea salvadorensis H.Wendl. ex Becc. | El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua | |
| Brahea sarukhanii H.J.Quero | Nayarit, Jalisco |
=Formerly placed here=
- Washingtonia filifera (Linden ex André) H.Wendl. (as B. filamentosa (H.Wendl. ex Franceschi) H.Wendl. ex Kuntze){{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?1679 |title=GRIN Species Records of Brahea |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=2010-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120103300/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?1679 |archive-date=2009-01-20 |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Brahea|Brahea}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Brahea|Brahea}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221325/http://www.kew.org/searchepic/detailquery.do?requiredPage=1&scientificName=brahea&datasources=ipni&datasources=mc&datasources=kr&datasources=libcat&datasources=pmb&datasources=ebbd&datasources=ecbot&datasources=livcoll&datasources=herbcat&datasources=sid&datasources=sepasal&datasources=efz&datasources=kewweb&categories=names&categories=bibl&categories=colln&categories=taxon&categories=flora&categories=misc&detailDatasource=mc Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - ePIC: Brahea]
{{Arecaceae genera}}
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