Hemithrinax

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

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| image = Hemithrinax ekmaniana.jpg

| image_caption = Hemithrinax ekmaniana

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| taxon = Hemithrinax

| authority = Hook.f.

| type_species = Hemithrinax compacta

| type_species_authority = (Griseb. & H. Wendl.) Hook.f.

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Hemithrinax is a genus of palms that is endemic to eastern Cuba.{{cite web|url=http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=98254&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=98254&status=true |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130802160945/http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=98254&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=98254&status=true |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-08-02 |title=Hemithrinax Hook.f. in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker, Gen. Pl. 3: 930 (1883). |access-date=2007-01-15 |format= |work=Royal Botanic Gardens, 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. It comprises three species and one variety{{Cite web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Hemithrinax|title=Search results — The Plant List|website=www.theplantlist.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-24}} and was previously included within the genus Thrinax.{{Cite journal|last1=Lewis|first1=Carl E.|last2=Zona|first2=Scott|date=2008|title=Leucothrinax morrisii, a New Name for a Familiar Caribbean Palm|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237273996|journal=Palms|volume=52 |issue=2|pages=84–88|via=ResearchGate}}

• Hemithrinax compacta (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) M.Gómez - Sierra de Nipe in Holguin Province
• Hemithrinax ekmaniana Burret - Las Villas in Granma Province
• Hemithrinax rivularis León - Sierra de Moa in Holguin Province
• Hemithrinax rivularis var. savannarum (León) O.Muñiz - Oriente and Sierra de Moa in Holguin Province.