Chuniophoenix

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

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Chuniophoenix is a genus of palm tree named after Chun Woon-Young, then director of the Botanical Institute, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou. It contains three known species, native to southern China and Vietnam.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=40337 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]{{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 & N. W. Uhl |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNQDsSmx2roC&pg=PA361}}[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=107034 Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 149, 琼棕属 qiong zong shu, Chuniophoenix Burret, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem. 13: 583. 1937.]Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.{{Cite journal|last=Henderson|first=A|date=2015|title=A revision of Chuniophoenix (Arecaceae)|url=http://mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2015/f/pt00218p170.pdf|journal=Phytotaxa|volume=218|issue=2|pages=163–170|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.218.2.6}} Chuniophoenix is a member of tribe Chuniophoeniceae, a small group of palms that exhibit great morphological diversity and interesting biogeography. The tribe includes four genera: Chuniophoenix with 3 species in China and Vietnam, Kerriodoxa (monotypic) in Peninsular Malaysia and Thailand, Nannorrhops (monotypic) from Arabia to Afghanistan, and Tahina (monotypic) in Madagascar.{{Cite journal|last1=Dransfield|first1=John|last2=Rakotoarinivo|first2=Mijoro|last3=Baker|first3=William J.|last4=Bayton|first4=Ross P.|last5=Fisher|first5=Jack B.|last6=Horn|first6=James W.|last7=Leroy|first7=Bruno|last8=Metz|first8=Xavier|date=2008-01-01|title=A new Coryphoid palm genus from Madagascar|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=156|issue=1|pages=79–91|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00742.x|issn=1095-8339|doi-access=free}}

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Image	Name	Distribution
120px	Chuniophoenix hainanensis Burret	China: Hainan
120px	Chuniophoenix nana Burret	China: Hainan and northern Vietnam
	Chuniophoenix suoitienensis Henderson	Southern Vietnam