Prestoea

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Prestoea montana.jpg

| image_caption = Prestoea acuminata

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Prestoea

| authority = Hook.f.{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?9828 |title=Prestoea Hook. f |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2007-10-05 |accessdate=2009-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507035707/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?9828 |archive-date=2009-05-07 |url-status=dead }}

| type_species = Prestoea pubigera

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

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

| diversity = See text

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| synonyms =

• Euterpe Gaertn.
• Martinezia Ruiz & Pav.
• Oreodoxa Willd.
• Acrista O.F.Cook

}}

Prestoea is a genus of palms native to the Caribbean, Central and South America. Its range extends from Nicaragua and the Greater Antilles in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=165270 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.Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Arecaceae/Prestoea/|title=Prestoea — The Plant List|website=www.theplantlist.org|access-date=2019-05-08}}