Carpoxylon

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

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| image = Carpoxylon macrospermum 3 (8019482561).jpg

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| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Dowe, J.L. |date=1998 |title=Carpoxylon macrospermum |volume=1998 |page=e.T38465A10120829 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T38465A10120829.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| display_parents = 4

| genus = Carpoxylon

| parent_authority = H.Wendl. & Drude

| species = macrospermum

| authority = H.Wendl. & Drude

}}

Carpoxylon macrospermum is a species of palm tree endemic to Vanuatu, and the only species in the genus Carpoxylon.{{cite book |editor=Klaus Kubitzki |year=1998 |title=Flowering plants, Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae) |volume=4 |series=The families and genera of vascular plants |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-540-64061-5 |page=361 |chapter=Palmae |author=J. Dransfield |author2=N. W. Uhl |name-list-style=amp |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNQDsSmx2roC&pg=PA361}}

It is an IUCN Red List Critically endangered species, threatened by habitat loss.

Taxonomy

This palm was first described by Hermann Wendland and Carl Georg Oscar Drude in 1875 in Linnaea.

References

{{Reflist|refs=

Govaerts, R. et al. (2019) [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31146-1 Plants of the world online: Carpoxylon macrospermum.] Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 13 March 2019.

Wendland, H. & Drude, C.G.O (1875) [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/122804 Linnaea 39:177.] Retrieved 13 March 2019.

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal|last1=Dowe|first1=John L.|last2=Benzie|first2=John|last3=Ballment|first3=Elizabeth|title=Ecology and genetics of Carpoxylon macrospermum H. Wendl. & Drude (Arecaceae), an endangered palm from Vanuatu|journal=Biological Conservation|volume=79|issue=2–3|year=1997|pages=205–216|issn=0006-3207|doi=10.1016/S0006-3207(96)00094-8|bibcode=1997BCons..79..205D }}

{{Arecaceae genera}}

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Category:Carpoxylinae

Category:Endemic flora of Vanuatu

Category:Trees of Vanuatu

Category:Critically endangered flora of Oceania

Category:Monotypic Arecaceae genera

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Plants described in 1875

Category:Taxa named by Hermann Wendland

Category:Taxa named by Carl Georg Oscar Drude

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