Kerriodoxa

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

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Kerriodoxa elegans, the white backed palm, is the only species of palm tree in the genus Kerriodoxa, in the family Arecaceae.Pooma, R. (ed.) (2005). A preliminary check-list of threatened plants in Thailand: 1-193. National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.Barfod, A.S. & Dransfield, J. (2013). Flora of Thailand 11(3): 323-498. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=105915 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

It is an endemic species of Thailand, first discovered in the Khao Phra Thaew reserve on 11 March 1929 and described as a new genus and species in 1983.{{Cite web |title=White Backed Palm (Kerriodoxa elegans) |url=http://phuket-pictures.com/?p=1021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806051813/http://phuket-pictures.com/?p=1021 |archive-date=2013-08-06 |access-date=2012-10-05}}Dransfield, John. 1983. Principes 27: 4 It is dioecious, with separate male and female plants.{{Cite book |last=Dransfield |first=John |title=Genera Palmarum - The Evolution and Classification of Palms |last2=Uhl |first2=Natalie W. |last3=Asmussen |first3=Conny B. |last4=Baker |first4=William J. |last5=Harley |first5=Madeline M. |last6=Lewis |first6=Carl E. |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |year=2008 |isbn=9781842461822}}

The genus name of Kerriodoxa is in honour of Arthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942), an Irish medical doctor.{{Cite book |last=Burkhardt |first=Lotte |url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 |location=Berlin |language=German |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition |format=pdf |doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}