Jubaeopsis

{{Short description|Monotypic genus of palms}}

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Hilton-Taylor, C. et al. |date=1998 |title=Jubaeopsis caffra |volume=1998 |page=e.T30400A9543726 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T30400A9543726.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

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| genus = Jubaeopsis

| species = afra

| parent_authority = Becc.

| authority = Becc.

| synonyms = *Jubaeopsis caffra

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Jubaeopsis afra,{{cite journal |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02365-x | doi=10.1038/d41586-024-02365-x | title=Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists | date=2024 | last1=Callaway | first1=Ewen | journal=Nature | pmid=39026072 | url-access=subscription | access-date=8 August 2024 | archive-date=8 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808163208/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02365-x | url-status=live }} the Pondoland palm, is a flowering plant species in the palm family (Arecaceae). It belongs to the monotypic genus Jubaeopsis.{{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=379 |chapter=Palmae |author1=J. Dransfield |author2=N. W. Uhl |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNQDsSmx2roC&pg=PA379}}

It is endemic to South Africa, where it is threatened due to habitat loss. This tree is a living fossil, being the last remaining lineage of the palm trees that were widespread in southern Africa in prehistoric times.{{Cite journal |author1=A. E. Marvaldi |author2=R. G. Oberprieler |author3=C. H. C. Lyal |author4=T. Bradbury |author5=R. S. Anderson |year=2006 |title=Phylogeny of the Oxycoryninae sensu lato (Coleoptera: Belidae) and evolution of host-plant associations |journal=Invertebrate Systematics |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=447–476 |doi=10.1071/IS05059}} A large living specimen is currently found at the Catamaran Resort in San Diego, CA.visual reference{{Better source needed|date=August 2024}}