Hyospathe

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

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Hyospathe is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae, native to South America and Central America. It contains the following species:[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=101295 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.

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Image	Scientific name	Distribution
120px	Hyospathe elegans Mart.	Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
	Hyospathe frontinensis A.J.Hend.	Colombia
	Hyospathe macrorhachis Burret	Ecuador
	Hyospathe peruviana A.J.Hend.	Huánuco region of Perú
	Hyospathe pittieri Burret	Colombia, Panamá, Venezuela
	Hyospathe wendlandiana Dammer ex Burret	Colombia (Antioquia)