Parajubaea

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

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|image_caption = Parajubaea torallyi

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|taxon = Parajubaea

|authority = Burret

|type_species =Parajubaea cocoides

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Parajubaea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.

Species in this genus are native to the northern Andes mountains in northwestern South America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=147488 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.

Parajubaea is named after King Juba II.{{Cite journal |last=Briones |first=Julià Molero |last2=Pereira |first2=Trinidad Arcos |last3=Carrasco |first3=María Dolores García de Paso |last4=Reyes-Betancort |first4=Jorge Alfredo |last5=Santos‐Guerra |first5=Arnoldo |last6=Jestrow |first6=Brett |last7=Francisco‐Ortega |first7=Javier |date=2025-04-30 |title=On the Macaronesian endemic woody spurge Euphorbia regis‐jubae Webb & Berthel. and eponyms honouring the Numidian King Juba II (48 BCE –23/24 CE) |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134297198 |journal=Curtis's Botanical Magazine |doi=10.1111/CURT.12623|url-access=subscription }}