Carpoxylon

Carpoxylon
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Subfamily:	Arecoideae
Tribe:	Areceae
Subtribe:	Carpoxylinae
Genus:	Carpoxylon H.Wendl. & Drude
Species:	C. macrospermum
Binomial name
Carpoxylon macrospermum H.Wendl. & Drude [2] [3]

Carpoxylon macrospermum is a species of palm tree endemic to Vanuatu, and the only species in the genus Carpoxylon. ^[4]

It is an IUCN Red List Critically endangered species, threatened by habitat loss. ^[1]

Taxonomy

This palm was first described by Hermann Wendland and Carl Georg Oscar Drude in 1875 in Linnaea. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Dowe, J.L. (1998). "Carpoxylon macrospermum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1998 e.T38465A10120829. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T38465A10120829.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. Govaerts, R. et al. (2019) Plants of the world online: Carpoxylon macrospermum. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
3. Wendland, H. & Drude, C.G.O (1875) Linnaea 39:177. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
4. J. Dransfield & N. W. Uhl (1998). "Palmae". In Klaus Kubitzki (ed.). Flowering plants, Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae). The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol. 4. Springer. p. 361. ISBN   978-3-540-64061-5.

Further reading

• Dowe, John L.; Benzie, John; Ballment, Elizabeth (1997). "Ecology and genetics of Carpoxylon macrospermum H. Wendl. & Drude (Arecaceae), an endangered palm from Vanuatu". Biological Conservation. 79 (2–3): 205–216. Bibcode:1997BCons..79..205D. doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(96)00094-8. ISSN   0006-3207.