| Coccothrinax barbadensis | |
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| In the Canary Islands | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Genus: | Coccothrinax |
| Species: | C. barbadensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Coccothrinax barbadensis | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Coccothrinax barbadensis (latanier, latanier balai) [2] is a palm native to Venezuela, the Lesser Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago. [1] Like other members of the genus Coccothrinax, C. barbadensis is a fan palm. The leaves are widely used to thatch roofs.
The species is native to Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago [2] and Venezuela (including the Venezuelan Antilles). [1] Henderson and coauthors report that the species was probably present throughout the Lesser Antilles, but was extirpated on many of them. [2]
In 2005, George Proctor (in Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong, 2005 [3] ) considered Coccothrinax alta to be a distinct species (based on its shorter, more slender trunk, fewer stamens and much smaller fruit, but Rafaël Govaerts [4] considered it a synonym of C. barbadensis.
