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
| display_parents = 4
| genus = Carpoxylon
| parent_authority = H.Wendl. & Drude
| species = macrospermum
| authority = H.Wendl. & Drude
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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.
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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:Endemic flora 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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